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...two weeks left and then I'm going home again. Which actually feels pretty good - there have been problems with the course so we've been recieving really bad tuition, so a lot of us are a bit worried that we won't make the exams. And also Cabarete is a bit too small for me, too many rumours running around in a place like this... But I've had a wonderful couple of months and I'm planning on enjoying my last few weeks as much as possible!

Just over...

Elin Thyr
2006-02-25 13:33:50

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...two weeks left and then I'm going home again. Which actually feels pretty good - there have been problems with the course so we've been recieving really bad tuition, so a lot of us are a bit worried that we won't make the exams. And also Cabarete is a bit too small for me, too many rumours running around in a place like this... But I've had a wonderful couple of months and I'm planning on enjoying my last few weeks as much as possible!

About a week ago I got home from my one week vacation - I went to Costa Rica to visit a friend of mine, Lisa, who's studying Spanish there. She lives in San Jose, the capital in the middle of the country, which is quite a big ugly city but I still liked it. It's situated in a valley with beautiful mountains all around it. Lisa lives with an adorable Costarican family and attends a university where she's taking Spanish courses. I got to meet some of her friends who are mostly ticos and I got the oppurtunity to practice my Spanish. I've come to realize that learning Spanish here is hard because there are too many turists here. Too many Dominicans speak English and we never speak Spanish among ourselves. The only way to really learn a language is to talk, and that we're not doing much of here...

Anyway, I had a lovely week in San Jose and I really loved Costa Rica. We went to a bunch of national parks, we went up into the beautiful green mountains, saw a volcano (even though there were too much clouds for us to see anything and it was raining and windy and I've never been that cold for months!), coffee plantations, sugar cane plantations, I met really great people, saw a great deal of bars and a bit of San Jose. I must confess I did some shopping as well - I almost got lost in all the surf shops that just seemed to proliferate everywhere! But the best part about the trip was seeing Lisa - it was so wonderful to spend time with someone you really care about, that ...