Today we ran into a lot of traffic getting to school. First we followed a trash truck up our street as it made its pickups. For those of you who’ve visited you know why its hard to pass a trash truck on our street. Then we were behind a tractor on Ruta 3 going through Atena. Finally, we followed a bicycle that was pulling a trailer up the dirt road to our Spanish school.
Fortunately we left the house early and these impediments did not make us late to school.
Our plan to buckle down and focus hard on Spanish is paying off. I have mastered my fear of reflexive verbs. Each day in class we cover lots of new ground and are flying through Libro Dos (the intermediate book). Each day in the afternoon, when Jill is finished with her clients we sit down and quiz each other with the 501 Spanish Verbs book. We have also been leaving the house earlier in the morning so that we can review before la profesora arrives.
All of this studying doesn’t make for very interesting blog posts, but we should have lots of adventures to report from our field trip to the Caribbean this weekend.
Tomorrow we will leave for Puerto Viejo de Talamanca straight from Spanish school. If we get a good start hopefully we will be there by 4PM. Today Profesora Maria told us that Puerto Viejo is her favorite place in Costa Rica. She did warn us that on the drive through el bosque lluvioso (the rainforest) if you are too late in the day the fog can descend and make driving hazardous.
We look forward to beach hopping, enjoying Caribbean music, and taking lots of pictures to make the next blog post more entertaining.
Adventure is out there!
Jill and Todd in Costa Rica 