First the rain. Yikes! Friday afternoon it POURED down rain! My friend Katherine and I had planned to go the the National Theater of Costa Rica for a performance, but first we went home after school to drop off our books. By the time we got to our homes we were both drenched. I changed, but I couldn't leave the house again because there was about a foot of water coming up into the open garage area (it is a fenced-in area in front of the house where they park the cars) as well as pouring down the street like a river. Finally the rain let up and our comedy of errors continued. Katherine called a cab and they came to pick me up. Unfortunately, in Costa Rica there are no house numbers. So my address is: "from the Supermercado Si-Mart, go one block east, then one block north - it's the house with the brick columns". Well, Katherine didn't know exactly where my house was and the poor "taxista" couldn't find it. They just kept driving around in circles until finally she just had him take her back home. Fortunately, about that time, the son of my family said he was going into San Jose and would be glad to take us there. We got directions to Katherine's house and the same thing happened! Jose couldn't find the house! But we were in luck because he had a cell phone and called. Finally, about 5:00 we made it to San Jose. We bought tickets to the National Symphony performance and then walked to the Parque Central and to the National Cathedral. We then had a very nice, relaxing dinner in the cafe of the National Theater. The performance was first-class, with the Symphony as well as several guest singers. At one point, there was even a dancer with the beautiful native dress - white with brightly colored flowers. I enjoyed it tremendously!
Another "vaca" named "Cafe con Leche"
- it is totally covered with coffee beans!
2 comments:
Sounds pretty good - how's the Spanish going?
The spanish is going pretty well. We took a mini-van back and the other 3 people were from Honduras. I was able to converse with them and understand just about everything they said, which was very encouraging!
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