Staying positive is something that was a challenge for me today. It was a day of culmination of emotions and stresses from a long week. We didn't have class at LASP this morning, but I went in early to work on my thesis paper, meet with my group to prepare for our ICADS presentation, and talk with Trevor about how things have been going with my host family. To be completely honest, anticipating my meeting with Trevor occupied my thoughts all morning, and while everything is relatively worked out now, it was a fairly challenging day as far as my host family goes.
I felt like our ICADS presentation was kind of just thrown together and I didn't feel very prepared (which was entirely my fault), so that didn't help with the positivity level either. It seemed like a lot of us were worn out this morning, so to cheer ourselves up, some of us left LASP early in order to be able to walk slowly and leisurely to ICADS and make a few stops on the way. We ended up going to the post office again to send some post cards I found in my backpack...I must have missed them when I sent the rest of the notes. A few people bought some fresh fruit from street vendors, and we also stopped at a little store to buy Trits, our new favorite ice cream snack, which brightened all of our days.
ICADS was a little different today because everyone was giving presentations, so we spent the first 2 hours or so listening to groups present about indigenous people groups from Costa Rica
I chose to ignore my homework for the evening, and it was good to have a night off. I'm excited to visit Haleigh's host family tomorrow afternoon. We're planning on baking cookies, planning our Spring Break trip, and working a little bit on our homework. We'll see how much of that last one gets done ;)
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