Monday, February 14

            Happy Valentine's Day! My host siblings just politely banged my door down to give me an incredibly sweet Valentine's day card from their family. They make me feel more and more loved every day! :) I was happy I had some little chocolate hearts to share with them, and no one wanted to leave my room so that I could study.

            This week is going to be another crazy one, but luckily I'm only anticipating academically craziness instead of emotionally and physically exhaustion. Its our last week in San Jose before our trip to Nicaragua, so our thesis papers are due on Wednesday. For ICADS we also have an 8 minute presentation to give on Wednesday and a final exam on Friday. Yikes! So far I have....nothing finished!! Luckily all my thesis paper requires this week is a few corrections and a works cited.

            Today was an interesting day, mostly because my schedule was completely different than it has been in the past. I went over to Haleigh's house to use the internet this morning, and it was sooo great to talk to John and my mom. Getting to Haleigh's house (I may have missed a bus and forgotten which street she lived on) and then calling home took up pretty much my whole morning, and before I knew it we needed to head over to ICADS. I didn't get a chance to work on any of my homework like I was hoping, but it was totally worth it.

            In Spanish class we worked on vocabulary, and it was fun to learn the dictionary version of words and then the slang words that people actually use. We made a few stops on the way home, and I bought this delicious yogurt and granola thing that I think I could eat every day for the rest of my life and not get sick of. I also bought some poster board (yes...we finally found some!) for my presentation on Wednesday. That was super fun to carry while we took the long way home and I squeezed onto an overfull bus.

            When I got home mami and I talked about the school system in Costa Rica (the topic for my presentation on Wednesday) for about an hour and she was really helpful! Then I helped her get dinner ready and we all ate together. From the minute I got home Melany was dying to play something...ANYTHING with me, so after dinner we played with some clay for a while and then I needed to work on my presentation. Motivation = lacking and progress = slow, but I know I need to just do it or I'll regret it when the final grades come through.