Thursday, February 26, 2009

El Viaje

Well, starting at the beginning, this is the view that you would see as you are coming into the airport. I didn't take this picture (or any of the ones I will post) because my camera stopped functioning in the first week. Anyway, when I was looking at these beautiful mountains, I was very, very nervous. My first journal entry in the journal that Joc gave me for Christmas starts out like this, "I'm scared to death." Haha, I guess it didn't really hit me that I was leaving the country that I belong to until I was in the air. Marissa had given me a letter with some pictures in it to open on the plane and it was perfect, she has always been able to read my mind. She reminded me what I was coming to Costa for: to learn spanish- a language that I have fallen in love with, to find confidence, to have the courage to adapt to a new lifestyle, and to strengthen my faith. The entire trip was very emotional.

But as you can see, Costa Rica is so gorgeous, and I started to get excited when we were directly over the country. I didn't realize that this was going to be the last time for a couple weeks that I felt like I was in reality. Once we landed in the heat I was immediately sweating with my NY clothes on. And then the man in customs was asking me questions in spanish. From then on, everything was like a whirlwind. My host Mom, Mayela, and the little girl she watches, Mariana, were waiting for me outside the airport with what seemed like a hundred other people (waiting for their family, etc.). They had a sign with my name on it and it was so cute! I had been imagining this for months and it was finally happening. 

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