100 degrees

It's been sooo hot here lately, it's insane. The ticos say that it's usually not THIS hot. But I'm definitely getting used to it and it makes great beach weather and the A/C in the classrooms makes it bearable.

So nothing too exciting has been happening here. Classes, talking with my family, meeting with my speaking partner Reinier... So I'm just gonna comment on some more things about Costa Rica that are so totally different than the US.

- ANTS. My house is FULL of them. It's starting to really gross me out. Like I'm sitting at the table and there's at least 30 of them crawling around while I'm trying to eat or do homework. Then I open up the sugar container to put some in my coffee and there's at least 10 ants crawling around in there. and my family doesn't even care haha.

- THE GUYS. the guys here are definitely different in respect to how they treat the ladies. they will always hold doors and hold their hands if they're trying to go down stairs. they will order them drinks and wait on them hand on foot. and it's not even like they like the girl or anything. it's just how they grew up learning how to treat women.

- THE FOOD. So I ate soup a couple weeks ago that had a pig's snout in it. YUP a full pig's snout. With bone and little hairs and pink. I almost puked. But I ate it... not the actually snout. but the soup. I had to try sooo hard not to think about it. I mean, the soup tasted good. I think the snout was just for flavoring... but really? did they have to put it in my bowl.

- Everyone says HI to everyone on the streets. Probably because everyone knows everyone in Puntarenas but it's really nice just getting smiles and waves and buenos dias all the time

AND there's more to come...but I can't think of all of them right now!

Oh, I love it when I'm talking or writing in English and random words in Spanish will come out! It shows that I'm thinking more in Spanish! Oh and the other night I had a dream in Spanish! It was crazy I was talking and thinking and communicating all in Spanish in my dream! You know what the worst thing is though? When you look up a word that you don't know in Spanish and then the English translation is also a word you don't know in English haha. It's the worst. So then you have to go to a regular English dictionary and look that word up.