5 semanas...

Hello to all! Yes, that's right, I only have 5 weeks left until I come home! I started packing yesterday actually. :-) As much as I love Costa Rica and have loved this experience, it's starting to get to me a little bit. I love my host mom but she smokes like a freight train and I honestly fear for her health, that being said, I'm tired of walking out of my room and being enveloped in cigarette smoke...not really my cup of tea. I'm afraid I've developed a little cough just from being around it so much. I am also slightly fed up with the water systems here. I know there are millions of people around the world that don't even have water, much less running water, but nonetheless, it is annoying that the water mysteriously stops working here for no apparent reason at all. It's especially annoying when I come home from a long day of walking in the pollution that permeates my town and all I want is a shower, it will be cold, but I've gotten used to this. I don't think a shower is too much to ask for, but apparently the city of Heredia thinks otherwise. We're not in a drought, so it's not like the water's not there, and we have all of the most modern plumbing pipes that exist, so in my opinion, the water should work all the time. So far this week, the water has gone out at least twice for hours at time, today it didn't come on until 5:30 pm...

Okay, enough venting, in other news, I saw Iron Man last night, in Spanish unfortunately, so I'll have to watch it again in English when I get back. It was pretty good, but so many things are lost in the translation, and I find that I'm still not very good at watching movies in Spanish. I have no clue what was being said for the majority of the movie, lol. It was a fun night out with a few of my friends, though, so that's always nice. I spent today resting and doing a little homework, thinking about how much homework I'm going to have to do this week. I only have 3 weeks of classes left, yay!!

Hope all is well for everyone!

Pura vida,
Amelia