I'm struggling today...

First off, I'd like to inform you all that it took me 15 minutes to figure out how to get the @ sign on a spanish keyboard (alt 64 by the way) in order to log onto the blog, but I'm finally ready to tell you all about my days happenings. I will start with yesterday afternoon. After I finished lunch, one of the school's interns said she would give me a tour of the school. Now, I don't want to sound rude, but this poor girl seemed scared out of her mind.She told me that she has studied Spanish here since she was 11 (I'm guessing she's about 20 now), but she was so uncertain and shy that I ended up finishing her sentences for her. It was an incredibly painful tour (for both of us). Afterwards, I went with a group of nine others to Heredia to take a look around. Our guide was a bilingual teen, and he did a nice job. We saw a park, a musuem, and the central market. I have a few pics of the fruits we tried (some were craaaaaazy), and I will try to get them up here soon. The tour ended at 5:30, and to be honest, I was dying. If you know me well, you know that I don't do well when tired/hungry. Naturally, this was the state I was in when I finally met my host family. Here is what I know about them so far: 1) They are upper middle class for sure. I live in a really nice house with my own room and (soon to be) own bathroom. 2) They are currently hosting another student from the program API who leaves on Saturday. She seems very nice and answered a lot of my questions. 3) They have an alarm system and I'm pretty sure I set it off this morning when I tried to go downstairs to the bathroom. Of course, as soon as it went off I sprinted back to my room and pretended to be sleeping...yeah, not too proud about that one... 4) So far, the family consists of a mother and father (the papers failed to mention the husband, but he's very nice). I have yet to meet the grandkids, but I hear they live nearby. 5) Jet lag exists in Costa Rica. I fell asleep at 9:00 (so 10:00 back home) and promtly woke up 1.5 hours later as if I had taken a nice nap. Fortuantely, I read and fell back asleep pretty quickly. 6) God is definitely in Costa Rica, too. We've talked a lot lately, and He's keeping me pretty calm about this crazy situation.

I think that's all for now. I don't have any afternoon activities today, but the other student at my house said she would show me around town.The only problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to get home. My host mom walked me here this morning in 20 minutes, but I guarentee it will take me an hour to get home. Good thing I wore my tennis shoes!