El Terremoto

Costa Rica was just starting to feel like home and its already time to say good bye. The past four weeks have been a blur but I think i picked up a great deal of experience with the language, practical knowledge for the engineering, and had a ton of fun. After school we often played some pickup soccer or basketball in between rain storms. We often played against local guys on this court right in the middle of our residential area. They seemed particularly excited to exercise their repertoire of vulgarities in English and amiably referred to me as "Strong Man."

My only regret for the weeks here was that I didn't get to spend enough time with my host family. Last night we took some time and had some fun with the kids. Jonathan and Esteban were very excited to show off the song and dance they learned from a clown at a birthday party while Antoni was all radiant smiles as usual. They're quite a handful- especially Jonathan (wearing the dress and women's shoes). Flory calls him el terremoto (the earthquake).