Still Here!

I'm in Costa Rica. I'm in class five days a week from 8 AM-12 PM. It's tons of fun, let me tell you. I feel like I've already learned everything in our class, so it's really easy. I probably won't get credit for it, which is frustrating, but my conversational Spanish is getting lots better. I've been doing a wonderful job of walking up to people I don't know and starting conversations. I did that Thursday night and Friday night. Thursday we meet some Ticos at Castro's and on Friday I meet some students from the University of South Carolina. I danced like crazy with this guy Kevin...fun!!

Yesterday at 7:30 in the morning, we went on a canopy tour of the Monteverde Cloud Forest. It was incredible!! We went zip-lining through the canopy and on a tarzan swing! Talk about leaving your stomach behind! Everything here is so green, I'm always amazed. This morning we hiked a little bit through the rainforest and decided it would be a good idea to cross a not-so-sturdy bridge, but everyone is still alive and doing well. Outside of the fact that it is raining outside and we're soaked!

Anyway, I guess Winter Term off-campus stuff is open again. I'm sort of annoyed, well not annoyed, just a little bit irked I guess. The two programs I applied to are now open *rolls eyes*. I'll apply again and see how it goes. I'm thinking that I'll only apply to the El Salvador trip since the Bank of Mom and Dad would be willing to pay for it because it involves Spanish and my major and this weird thing called "service." I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be as excited to front the cost of me going to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. I've decided if I don't get into the El Salvador trip, I think I'll go to France over Christmas break and Winter Term. In the meantime I guess I'm going to try to live one day at a time and work really hard to not kill or severely maim everyone else in my ISA group.

I have really cool video footage of a zip-line and some pretty cool pictures that I hope to put up tomorrow depending on how long it takes to upload them.

I miss everyone a lot and I really love being here, but at the same time, I can't wait to come home!