Hello my name is Kari and I live in Costa Rica. Enough with the introductions now on to my intimate thoughts!
We got in to Costa Rica monday evening and were carted off straight to a convent on the hills overlooking San Jose (the Capital) which is where we're staying until saturday. We're still staying at the hotel/hostel? since we arrived and so thats all i've seen of the country except the two casinos and many MANY Quiznos we saw on our drive in from the airport (for sirius, more in that drive than i'd seen in my whole life).
Our life here has been what i expect the life of a nun to be like, waking up around 5am when a parrot right outside your window starts screeching, falling asleep and being woken up about 20 minutes later by the lawn mower passing right behind your head. Participating in ritual castigation in the form of standing in the freezing cold water for your shower hoping that with enough time and sheer force of will it will warm up to the temperature of the water in the sink taps, then spending the rest of the next 10 hours or so participating in classes, lectures and dinamicas (ice breakers) then running back to the room to throw on a fleece, crawl under 3 blankets and wonder how a country so close to the equator can be so cold
so maybe thats not exactly how nuns live...
My first moment of cross cultural realization happened yesterday when i learned all the outlets in this country have two prongs and my computer charger has 3. Therefore, until next time (when i've managed to pick up a converter) I bid you all adieu before my computer shuts down
