Arrival and first impressions!

Hi all!

Let me start by thanking people for posting comments, they make me very excited. And Kiana thanks for taking care of Sarah.

Ok...so....here is the traditional overview of my first few days ont his adventure.


Day 1

So...perhaps oddly and perhaps not I found the airport people in New Yorok, this time much nicer than the one in Pearson, and I once again passed through U.S. security and have the stamp in my passport to prove it. Yay!

The first plane ride was good, thanks to internet checking in I got a seat that was both a window seat and a plane seat. It was a small plane. And as an added bonus I got to listen in on an explanation as to why planes fly, and the New York landscape. I was seated behind and across the aisle form a mother and her two kids.

The second plane ride was great...I was seated in the bulkhead are, YAY extra leg space! Yay, pré check in! As an added bonus not only did I have the window, but the seat in between me and the person on the aisle was empty. She and I were extatic about this...it gave us new levels of room on a plane we hadn´t dreamed of...I think we had it better than First class. So all in all the flight was awesome. Plus the girl seated by me is a native of San Jose, the Costa Rican´capital and we exchanged emails so I already knew some one here.

So the flights were awesome. It made up for the fact that airport time when you are by yourself draaaaaaaaaaaaags like nothing. But hey I did get to reread all of The Glass Castle so alls good, and best of all my luggage arrived with me safe and sound, and I managed after a while to find Enid and her husband Louis who were picking me up in Costa Rica.

I will be staying with Enid (my supervisor) and Louis, who are very nice and the cutest couple, very socially minded as well and patient with my Spanish....or lack tehre of. (Yeah I discovered that I do not yet posess the speed of ears or tongue yet to converse hear)

Also met Marie, a girl form Japan, who is here working through a japanese organization at MUSADE as well, and is also staying with Enid. She has some English and is better able to speak Spanish slowly, so she is kind of my saving grace here, currently.


Other first Impressions...

• Wow, my room is bigger than I thought! I will adjust to the pink....somehow...
• Yay! Food is included in my rent!
• Costa Rican´s better understand¨Reduce, reuse, recycle than Canadians do...
• Costa Rican´s are really really nice and welcoming.
• Shit, they speak fast!
• Those flowers are pretty.