As a follow up to Charlotte´s post, we all have a joke about the rice. I don´t think either of us have seen so much rice in our lives! What´s funny at about the fried plaintains is that when Allie was describing the delicious food she´d eaten over the weekend, she was describing fried green plaintains-a food very typical in Jamaica and one of my favourites. She aleady has me bringing back a tupperware of fried green plaintains for her in the beginning of the school year :D.
Conversation classes today were a lot of fun! We all got in groups of three and made up our own ´television news reports´ over what one of us did on the weekend and the weather that took place. I must say, seeing the drawings of Nate, Jack and Joe while they tried to explain the weather in Spanish were entertaining enough- you´d never guess that each of the 16-year olds drew smiling suns! Also, we all struggled through pronouncing tongue twisters in Spanish: if you ever thought they were difficult in English, I challenge you to try them in another language :P. Still fun though! And everyday we test how much our vocabulary has grown by playing a game called ¨Alto¨- I think we all have yet to beat Jack, but we´ll get there. Down here is all about the experience, and I think that what we´re doing in Costa Rica right now is not only a test on how well we can grasp Spanish, but also on the culture and just being exposed to new things every single day. It´s a priceless opportunity.
-Leah
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