Chupamos en Espanol

So we woke up. Desayuno was great. Pineapple and tea and two pankcakes. Flora is perfect. A very sweet grandmother. We got to sleep in today because of everyone's plans were able to do so. Breakfast was at 8 instead of 6. After we got ready, Andrea (one of the girls) took us into town via public bus. She showed us the stops and the price and how to get back. After we got into town, michaela and I went to the program's place to figure out our plans until we leave. Tomorrow we are going to this dog thing in the mountains. It's filled with over 900 stray dogs. We are going to collapse or cry because we love dogs so much. We also got a trip planned for satruday, going to parque nacional Manuel Antonio. The rainforest is filled with monkeys and the beach is beautiful. I'm looking forward to that. We went to the out door market. It's like a bunch of stores open to the street, like a farmers market and European city center mixed. I got a blanket for myself. The picture below. My one souvenir and then some gifts for others. We plan on going back on Sunday. Orientation is at 2:30 on Monday so we get to sleep in again.

Things I've been wanting to tell you:

• I thought I was in Italy for a moment and said ciao to one of the grandkids instead of adios and now the kids say ciao to me or in front of me Hahahha
• Trying to talk to people takes both Michaela and I and we still cannot communicate properly 
• I tried a pastry called cacho I think and it was like an Italian bombalone 
• Michaela fed pigeons, it was so scary. Way too many. 
• Rain is super loud in this house and walls are super thin. There are a million people in their family
• Tap water is fine here.
• They drive with the bus door open
• We are in the Machismo culture, where all men are perverts basically. Google it.
  
• Graffiti is actually very beautiful in certain spots
• Conservative clothing is very important here. No shoulders or knees to be shown at work, in city center it's about the same. 
• I have high school musical stuck in my head, specifically "Bop to the Top" since the day we left Milwaukee 
• Flora (host grandmother) blends fruit for a juice every cena (dinner). Yesterday was guava or coconut and tonight's was cusa or cuza, a very sour fruit that looks like a lime.
• Chupamos en espanol. 
• They sell Cadbury here, not much but still
• In the artisan store (tourist souvenirs galore), the sellers pretty much attack you to get you into their little area of merchandise
• It's actually really expensive here, you have to bargain 
• I'm slowly starting to remember more Spanish. I took 4 years of it but that was 5 years ago. So I'm doing things online to refresh my memory and use it outside on the street. 

I had a little conversation with a little nina (girl). She was the cutest thing. I was braiding my hair in the room with the door open and I thought I heard someone so I looked behind and she was standing in the doorway watching me. I said hola and asked how she was doing. She said bien (good) and she said like she got excited that I could speak Spanish. I asked what her name was and I told her mine. I said mucho gusto (nice to meet you) and she ran off. Cutest little girl, had to have been like 5 or 6.

I looked up the fruit that we had for juice tonight. It's Cas:
"This small, green fruit (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is known as Costa Rican guava or sour guava. A staple on Costa Rican tables, ripe cas is almost exclusively used for drinks, since its tart flavor, like a mix between lemon juice and white grapefruit, is usually too strong to eat plain."