This morning I woke up early to prepare my Spanish presentation because I had no motivation to do so last night. Strangely enough, I did not wake up with any more motivation than the night before. So I assembled a general outline, a few vocabulary words, and a chart, and hoped for the best. Sadly, this is probably a good indicator of how I will handle the rest of my educational endeavors here in Costa Rica.

Breakfast this morning was rockin. Coffee, huevos, toast, strawberry jelly, gallo pinto, natilla, and frutas con pina. Delicioso. We were all happy campers.

In Ecology today Scott managed to squeeze four lectures into our 90 minutes of class. That's nothing, though. On Monday he claims he will be condensing four semesters' worth of material into the first 20 minutes of class. This is getting ridiculous.

Carla has also been loading on the ridiculousness. She's out of control with the homework. I had 7 exercises about the freaking subjunctive to do for class today in addition to preparing for my presentation. PS Carla was really impressed with my presentation. She asked me if I ever thought at the beginning of the semester that I would be able to discuss the global population problems in Spanish, and I told her no way Jose. She said I have made really great progress and she is very proud of me. Love her.

Two other exciting things happened today in Spanish:

First was when Carla was going through the contents of the four page prompt for my composition with me, she said "reality show" in English. It sounded more like reality cho. I couldn't believe my ears! Carla understands English perfectly, but refuses to speak it because she's somewhat of a perfectionist and can't stand to say something incorrectly. However, Cayman has been promised a sentence of English at the conclusion of classes. I must witness this epic event. I must.

Second was the arrival of the greatest care package this world has ever seen. 10 pounds and 14 ounces of packaged care, to be exact. I'm not sure exactly how much a card, a stuffed monkey, and a Tinkerbell DVD weigh, but the remaining contents of my treasure chest were everything one needs to induce a sugar coma that one may or may not wake up from. And then some. A fatty bag of Ghirardelli assorted squares, brownie cookies with chocolate chips (CHOCOLATE CHIPS!), an assortment of Cadbury milk chocolate covered cookies (I did not know that such a wonder existed), Jelly Bellies in three assortments of flavors, gummy bears, gummy frogs, peppermint bark, and dark chocolate covered Altoids. Dark chocolate covered Altoids are my new bff. Not that I am discriminating against all of the rest of my goodies. No, no. I love them all. I am just particularly smitten with these at the moment. Happy Thursday to me. Thank you daddy!! The Sarah-nader is pleased :)

Lunch is irrelevant. Cookies are all that matter.

This afternoon when Tess and I were waiting around for Susan and Jennifer, we went into the comedor to check out the pan selection and to get some tea. Lucas was sitting in there, reading a paper, and Tess felt inclined to plop herself down across from him and start up a little chat. When I went to walk past, Lucas told me to come sit. And so I did. And that is how Lucas, Tess, I ended up having tea time together. Aside from the frequent awkward silences, it was actually rather enjoyable. We mostly talked about fiestas. Lucas loves fiestas. He also said we were practically ticas for knowing "pura vida" and "tuanis." Go us. Then he told us the funniest story about how when he was in the rain forest one time with his friend they thought they saw a puma, and they got all excited and, unthinking, ended up holding hands "like the gays." It killed me. It really did. 

Today was my last lesson with Susan and Jennifer. So sad. For lesson today, Tess and I made them Facebooks. Then we screwed around on Photo Booth for a while. And I gave them candy. Finally: a fun lesson! They are so freaking adorable. I'm going to miss them.

After lesson I locked myself in my room and forced myself to start studying for my Ecology midterm I'm taking Saturday morning. I released myself for dinner.

For dinner we had delicious tomato sopa and rice and veggies and pasta salad that had the potential to be good but sucked. For dessert Sylvia brought out jelly-filled cookies. I am above jelly-filled cookies now that I have a treasure chest.

After dinner I locked myself back in my room. I have been decently productive. Go me. Tomorrow morning I will be waking up at the crack of dawn to ride horses. Yay! Then Ecology lab all day long. WOO! Then more locking of self in room and studying. WOOOOO!!!!

F my life.

jk I'm in Costa Rica I can't say that.

pura vida.

peace love and sugar comas