This past week I have been learning more and more Spanish through my classes in the morning, watching different programs on tv with my host mother, trying to read and write in Spanish, and having conversations with different people in Spanish.
Often times my conversations turn out looking like more of a game than a conversation. For example, I'll be talking to my host mother and she asks what my father does. I can't think of all the right words in Spanish, so I go and get my notebook and draw a picture to show what I am trying to say. She tries to guess what word I'm thinking of and hopefully at the end of it all, we're on the same page.
The other night I was talking to her about different words for vegetables. She was telling me how to make this Costa Rican dish, and she used a food word that I didn't know. I asked her to explain what the word was, and so she begins to describe it to me using motions and different explanations. She started talking about a kids program and I had no idea where she was going with this explanation. She continues and then sings the theme song for this program, "Popeye, the sailorman" (in Spanish of course). Ah, I finally got what she was talking about...spinach/espinaca. Unfortunately, at that moment in trying to think so hard in Spanish I couldn't think of the word in English either. :) I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know another beautiful family that lives in a different part of the world than me.
On Wednesday, I had a cooking class. Unfortunately, I probably won't remember all of the recipe in order to make it when I return. In addition, it requires platanos which are not a common food in Indiana. However, I do have pictures to remember it by.
On Thursday after classes, the other students and I went to a exercise class. The husband of a lady who works at the mission is a personal trainer. So, we took a bus to Turrialba and did various exercises. Since it was very hot, and I don't look so great doing exercises, you won't be seeing pictures of this one.
The Turrialba volcano has become active for the first time in 40 years just recently in the past two weeks. This is a picture of the volcano (from a distance of course) :).
Great. Now your mom is going to worry about the volcano :)
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Girl don't you know you can get plantains in South Bend, probably even elkheart, you just have to go to the Hispanic and African grocery stores. Or even wal-marts in an area with a high Hispanic/African population.
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