As we were eating breakfast on the last full day at Las Cruses, our teacher Hector decided it was finally time to mention to us that the house we were staying in was a notorious hang-out for spiders. This came after my roommate, Sarah, described how she was woken up the previous night by a spider crawling on her lips. On a separate occasion, a girl was calmly warned that there was a spider on her bed and that she should get off. Only after escaping did she realize that the spider her friend was talking about was fairly large and pleasantly hairy. She didn’t sleep well that night to say the least. Hector says there are bigger ones yet!
Thankfully, we have escaped the domain of these creepy crawlers for the time being and retired to San José to meet our host families. My “mama tica” is named Nidia and she lives with her husband, daughter, and granddaughter, who is 21. The granddaughter has lived in Colorado as a snowboard-bum for the last two winters during her school’s break, but she’s not allowed to speak English with me. She is studying French at the University and hopes to travel to France someday. Also, Nidia’s other two daughters live in connected houses, and each one of them is hosting a student from my program. It will be nice to have two friends close to ride the bus to class with. Our Spanish class starts tomorrow!
In other news, we got stopped twice yesterday by the Costa Rican police. They were looking for two people who escaped a drug bust. Word on the street is they found 80 kilos of cocaine in a 'vegetable' stand next door to the biology station we were staying at. Good thing they didn't suspect us!
Okay Kel, I may have to rethink the visit to Costa Rica! You know I can't stand spiders and one like that on my bed would freak me out! Mom
ReplyDeleteWe won't be staying in a house in the middle of a rainforest most likely, so I think you should be good to go
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