hey there! just checking in while i'm in san jose with good internet. everything is going nice and smooth on my end here. project-wise, things are moving real fast. we're working on our puesto de salud (or medical facility) and waiting on word from the grant we wrote for a playground. we also just submitted a grant to get a little bit of money for an art extra-curricular program to talk about good communnication and promote peace and all that jazz. and the women's group is moving fast and about ready to start trying to start a bakery. i'm teaching them a business course, haha. so that sucks for them. the roads are being fixed as we speak too. then there's all the english classes and i'm about to start this group of 5th and 6th grade girls to talk about girl things. im really excited about that group... and i'm working with the new director of the school to try and see if a library or computer lab would be possible.
sooo, thats my life here. otherwise, i'm having fun taking a dance class in my town once a week with a bunch of friends from my time. we've learned a little bit of merengue, salsa, swing with a tico twist, etc. and i've only stepped on my partner's feet a few times so i'd mark that in as a success.
also, since my last post, i went to palmares for a huge festival with some friends. it's a larger town that one week a year has a gazillion people go to it for concerts, events, rides and food, the usual festival things. and then the next week we went to puntarenas, its a beach on the pacific coast and is a major port there. we went cuz we were going crazy with the constant rain and winds that wouldn't even let us leave our houses. so you can check out some pictures of those too...
