Jun 2009

It's been a while since we updated our blog. Anyway, we have skipped several noteworthy entries of our travels in Bali, Indonesia. And also of our road trip from San Diego to Corpus Christi via many beautiful areas of Texas Hill Country. Hopefully we will soon include them here.

We are doing mucho bien here. And yes, we are learning lots of Spanish. We arrived here (the city is called Heredia, which is just north of San Jose) on Sunday and our spanish school picked us up and dropped us with our host family. Our host, Senora Miriam, is a very friendly and hospitable lady. She is constantly conversing with us in espanol, so we get total exposure to Spanish. And she cooks wonderfully.

Our Spanish school is about 6 min walk from our host family's house. We are all in different classes, Thane and Aidan are together in a class by themselves with a teacher. She is keeping them busy with lots of art, games and songs, of course interspersing it all with Spanish. I am in a class with two other people that are about same level as me. Tomasz who is more advanced is getting a private lessons. After the first week, I think we all have learnt a lot.

The food here is very delicious. Last night, we had a Costa Rican cooking lesson at our school as part of our immersion program and we made some very yummy Empanadas.

For this weekend we are taking an guided excursion to a live volcanic region called Arenal Volcano. According to the guide books and speaking to others, we are in for a treat. The kids are excited to see the hot lava flow, hope the clouds won't cover the show for us!

Next week, we are moving to another home where there are children, so Thane and Aidan can have more immersion experience. They have been resisting learning another language.

I will post some photos next week.