UPDATE...

Ok, so it's been a couple days...Let's see what's new...

We went downtown on Friday and bought some stuff for our classes and our house. Just stuff like index cards, paper clips, and construction paper WOW so exciting I know...But we did buy a rice cooker and a big thing to hang on the wall- like a white board for the house.

Saturday was my first class! It went pretty good. It was a little hard to transition from beginners to intermediate for me. At home we do a lot of vocabulary because theyre just learning, but here I did almost all grammar. It's kind of hard to make things fun when it's grammar- but it'll come, I just have to get into the swing of things and get to know how my students learn and what they like to do. I had to get up so early, at 6 o'clock. Then I went out to the bus stop around 10 till 7 and caught a bus downtown and then walked a few blocks and then decided I didn't know where I was going so I got a taxi the rest of the way...

However, while I was walking I ran into this short little guy from LA. He asked me if I spoke English and then went on to tell me that he was robbed last night and didn't know any Spanish and everyone has been so mean to him and that our conversation was the longest one hes had since hes been here. So he asked me for some money for breakfast and I told him he could go into the bakery with me and I'd buy him something there since I was getting something too. Well he was set on a rice and beans breakfast from up the street and it was only like a dollar fifty. Well everyone knows how I am, so I gave him the money after I bought my breakfast and he said hed 'pay it forward, like the movie'...well since i hadnt seen the movie i didnt know what he was talking about but i told him to have a nice day...

After I got home I went to the Pharmacy to get some medicine because the night before I didn't sleep at ALL (and neither did Amber cause she had to listen to me coughing ALL night- sorry Amber) I think I've just had a headcold, or some sort of allergies- maybe to the change of climate and the fact that the seasons are changing here. I don't know but it was awful. Well Randall was at our house and I was about to pass out from the therma-flu stuff and I told him I gave some money that morning so Amber told him the story (I was too tired to do it myself) and he described the guy to us before we even got a chance to tell him what happened. He even knew the story the guy told me. Now I'm mad that I gave him money, unless he really did use it for breakfast and then it's ok, but if not that was so mean of him. About me being sick- today it's just sinus pressure...so we'll see what happens.

Sunday we left around 12 to go to the airport to get a suitcase from my parents. We go there and had to wait about an hour for the family to get through the airport, but it was worth the wait! She sent us lots of stuff for the kitchen (towels, pots, aluminum foil, saran wrap, pot holders, silverware, snacks, coffee creamer for amber, etc), bathroom (towels, deodorant-we cant seem to find any good brands here- lotions, etc) and then just other fun stuff like magazines in english TONS of roach killer and traps and candy =) THANKS SO MUCH!!! =) from both of us...Now whenever Mr. & Mrs. Henderson want to send us a package we're ready...just kidding =) but really...haha

Today was a holiday here- Juan Santamaria day- He was some kind of hero that saved a bunch of people from the Nicaraguans (or something like that) So alot of stuff was closed, but we didn't go anywhere anyway- we just stayed here and did lesson planning and stuff like that....I know we're living such an exciting life here!!!!

This is what we're using the white

board for right now...

I killed this one myself!!! (the first one)

And Amber cleaned it up on her own...(another first)

I think I drowned her with the bug spray...