Friday:
Spanish Level: Spanish today consisted of three words, Salsa, Merengue and Cumbia. I think the word for two left feet is pronounced sah-ley. My dance teacher Maurico kept saying it over and over. hahhahha
Today is Independence Day – No school. In the morning we all got up and went into town for the parade. Did I mention it is hot here? Well it was just like the 4th of July in GA. I remember standing in my band uniform for parades and how hot it was. Quepos is a little smaller than Barnesville, GA. The parade started off with the national anthem and the pledge to the flag. The floats/cars instead of having a lot of paper to decorate had greenery and flowers on them. The bands for the schools here have only two instruments. Drums (various) and an instrument like a xylophone. No woodwinds or horns or flutes. The girls here are so beautiful, naturally tan skin, dark brown hair, and big brown eyes. All the kids were dressed in traditional Costa Rican outfits. A lot of the parents walk along with the kids on the side during the parade. Everyone was taking pictures. Just like home. After the parade we had some snacks at the vendors around and went home.
My camera was full so I downloaded my photos into my laptop and was looking at a slide show of them with Wilbert…then in the afternoon, Wilbert and I walked to his brother’s restaurant, Juibert’s, a sea food place about 20 minutes away on foot. If someone wants you to walk for 20 minutes between 12noon and 3pm here be prepared to sweat! His restaurant used to be just 3 blocks away from my house in Boca Vieja, Carmen used to work there, that is how she met Wilbert. Juibert moved his restaurant to ‘the country’ and the restaurant in town, Kukula, is now owned by his son. I met Juibert and his wife Isabel. Mostly I think Wilbert wanted to go so I would take a picture of his brother but I enjoyed meeting some of his family. Juibert gave us the 50¢ tour of his house.
Carmen’s only sister (she has 5 brothers), one of her daughters, one of her sons and his girlfriend from San Jose arrived in the afternoon for the weekend. The son, Marurico, works at a bank during the day and also teaches dancing. He gave me a lesson in Salsa, Merengue and Cumbia which was very entertaining for the rest of the family. I think I’m actually better at these than I am at Spanish (and I’m not light on my feet), whenever I would mess up I would just say “I had no idea what to do because I don’t speak Spanish” kidding. He was pretty patient, a good teacher and you can tell he like dancing a lot. It was a lot of fun actually but I must have sweated 3 gallons!
Spanish Level: Spanish today consisted of three words, Salsa, Merengue and Cumbia. I think the word for two left feet is pronounced sah-ley. My dance teacher Maurico kept saying it over and over. hahhahha
Today is Independence Day – No school. In the morning we all got up and went into town for the parade. Did I mention it is hot here? Well it was just like the 4th of July in GA. I remember standing in my band uniform for parades and how hot it was. Quepos is a little smaller than Barnesville, GA. The parade started off with the national anthem and the pledge to the flag. The floats/cars instead of having a lot of paper to decorate had greenery and flowers on them. The bands for the schools here have only two instruments. Drums (various) and an instrument like a xylophone. No woodwinds or horns or flutes. The girls here are so beautiful, naturally tan skin, dark brown hair, and big brown eyes. All the kids were dressed in traditional Costa Rican outfits. A lot of the parents walk along with the kids on the side during the parade. Everyone was taking pictures. Just like home. After the parade we had some snacks at the vendors around and went home.
My camera was full so I downloaded my photos into my laptop and was looking at a slide show of them with Wilbert…then in the afternoon, Wilbert and I walked to his brother’s restaurant, Juibert’s, a sea food place about 20 minutes away on foot. If someone wants you to walk for 20 minutes between 12noon and 3pm here be prepared to sweat! His restaurant used to be just 3 blocks away from my house in Boca Vieja, Carmen used to work there, that is how she met Wilbert. Juibert moved his restaurant to ‘the country’ and the restaurant in town, Kukula, is now owned by his son. I met Juibert and his wife Isabel. Mostly I think Wilbert wanted to go so I would take a picture of his brother but I enjoyed meeting some of his family. Juibert gave us the 50¢ tour of his house.
Carmen’s only sister (she has 5 brothers), one of her daughters, one of her sons and his girlfriend from San Jose arrived in the afternoon for the weekend. The son, Marurico, works at a bank during the day and also teaches dancing. He gave me a lesson in Salsa, Merengue and Cumbia which was very entertaining for the rest of the family. I think I’m actually better at these than I am at Spanish (and I’m not light on my feet), whenever I would mess up I would just say “I had no idea what to do because I don’t speak Spanish” kidding. He was pretty patient, a good teacher and you can tell he like dancing a lot. It was a lot of fun actually but I must have sweated 3 gallons!
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hola de Nuevo-Jersey.
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