More of week 2:
Spanish Level: Trying to unlearn my bad Spanish habits is hard. One of the teachers at the school said I remind her of her three year old who says I, Antonio, me do it. I do this in Spanish, no matter who is doing the action in Spanish I say “They, I do it.” Or “You, I do it.” Sometimes I say “I, I do it” and correctly but I say it when I really mean ‘You, you do it. Aye Caramba!

A lot of time has passed since my last entry so I’m going to lump a few days together to sort of catch-up. I can’t even remember everything that has happened now but these are the highlights:

• Did I mention it is hot here? If not, it is.
  
• Stephanie has a cousin named Ivana, she is Carmen’s brother’s daughter (the brother who owns the little store). She has been over for a few nights this week. I think she is having boy troubles and her dad is making her frustrated so she’s been hanging out over here a lot. Her family lives a few blocks away in the house where Carmen grew up.
  
• Aunt Nancy, I took my pictures over to Idela’s house and showed her some of you. She and Victor send XXXX’s and OOOO’s (no idea how to say this in Spanish?)
  
• Wednesday my teacher took me on a field trip to Pilino, a hotel with a nature trail and a great pool. We walked up this steep mountain trail to the top where you can see all of Quepos and some of Manuel Antonio. It was high!! We saw some monkeys while we were there as well, white face monkeys and titi monkeys (2 out of the 4 kinds that live in Costa Rica). Did I mention how hot and humid it is here??? hahahaa… students of the school are allowed to use the pool at Pilino and this is a super way to beat the heat!!! I have been back twice since to swim.
  
• I found a website that has a translation of Catholic mass with one side in Spanish and one side in English so Ill be ready for our next visit to church.
  
• While we were on our field trip, the yard man found a 6 foot python in a bathroom at school. He got it out and let him go after officially enrolling it as an honorary member of Escuela D’Amore.
  
• Friday everyone from school except me headed back to the states. Monday there are some new students scheduled to arrive.
  
• There are ants here that look like ‘piss ants’ but they bite like fire ants. HIDEOUS! I happened to be standing in a few while opening the door one night and have about 10 itchy bites driving me crazy. *ouch* On the ‘up’ side, they don’t have a lot of mosquitoes here as they have 100 species of bats in the country some of which can eat up to a pound of mosquitoes in a night!