Hola!

Hey, everyone! Sorry it took me so long to get this going, but internet access is iffy at best, so I´ll post as much as I can. I met up with the group of students going with me in Miami and we waited for three hours until the program rep met us. Then we waited for three more hours until the plane left. Well...was supposed to leave. The plane was having problems, so we had to switch flights and waited three more hours until we actually left. Then, we had a three hour flight to Costa Rica. (Are you seeing a pattern, too?) We stayed the first night in dorm-like building in a seminary and had a few orientation meetings before meeting our host families the next afternoon.
Which brings me to my familia tica! (Costa Rican family) They are great! The mom is Lilliana and she´s so helpful and packs my lunch and leaves me food all the time. It´s cute. The dad is Lucas and he´s a pastor. We haven´t gotten to talk as much because we´re both so busy, but he´s really fun. They have four daughters (craziness, I´m sure). The oldest, Roxana, is thirty-something and married, so she doesn´t live here, but the other 3 do. Carolina is 23 and engaged, Ana Laura is 18, and Maricela is 17. I share a room with Ana, but she´s the social butterfly and hardly ever here. Although I´m hardly here either because they keep us so busy.
I have three classes right now. Two are a ways away in a building called the Spanish Language Institute. There we have our grammar and conversations classes. I´m in the highest level with a boy from Venezuela, a girl from Mexico, and a missionary kid who grew up in Bolivia. Needless to say, in the conversations class I feel a little in over my head. But I´m actually not doing too bad, so it´s fun. And I learn all kinds of slang this way! :) The other class is only twice a week in the LASP (that´s what the program I´m in is called) building. This class is 3 hours-ish long. Usually closer to 4. There´s usually a guest speaker for most of it and then we do biblical reflections or process groups where we just talk about our readings or the speaker or whatever. It´s a half hour walk (ten minutes of which is an insanely tiring hill) or you can take the bus for ten minutes, but still have to walk up The Hill.
There´s a lot more to tell, but for now I have homework and I´m exhausted, so I´ll update later! Chau!