In Costa Rica

Hola! So I made it, I am staying with a woman a few blocks from the university, and so far it has been pretty amazing! Today is the first day of classes, and I am on break for my tropical ecology class. I went up to Monteverde with my host mom and a friend a couple days ago and we had lunch and some vino at her brother´s farm. They have a ton of different animals, like peacocks, pigs, goats, horses, parrots, ostriches... it was pretty amazing. My friend and I went horseback riding down the road, and watched the beautiful costa rican scenery. Everything here is super green and alive, and everywhere in Puntarenas you can see the ocean. Yesterday I got a mini lesson on salsa, and I´m going to sit in on the dance class here so I can get my groove on! The food is definitly different, but good. I had take-out chinese food last night... and it defnitly was not what I am used to from the states. My host mom is great, she doesn´t speak a word of english, but I think I´ve been doing pretty well, we have had a few good conversatioons that went past hola, ¿como estas? I havn´t gotten any pictures yet, I´ll have to take a bike ride around the city tomorrow and get some good ones of la playa and all the coconut trees. So, hasta luego and miss you all!!