Christine will be a senior in Nursing at Pittsburg State. She is spending two months in San Jose, Costa Rica this summer studying Spanish and specifically medical Spanish. She sent this message which I translated for you.
How are all of you? I am good here in Costa Rica.
Despite my sickness (a stomach illness that Christine's host mom nursed her through), my trip to Puerto Viejo was very fun. Puerto Viejo is very different from other places I have visited. the poeple are a little strange and don't do much. There is a strong Jamacan influence so the food and people are different. However, I liked it a lot.
Friday five friends of mine and I went to a restaurant that had live music and people did tricks with fire, in the US we call them "flame twirlers." It was very interesting. Saturday we went to the beach to snorkel, surf and swim. I couldn't snorkel or surf because it scared me but I swam a lot. Then we went to a restaurant and then some of us went to dance at a bar. It was really fun. We danced salsa, merengue and cumbia for hours. What fun!
Sunday we rented bikes and went to another beach called Punta Uva. It was very pretty. On the way to the beach we stopped at a chocolate plantation and bought chocolate. Then we came back to San Jose. It was my favorite trip so far.
I like school and the professors a lot! I am learning a lot and I hope it is evident from my messages. See you.
Christine
Original Message:
Como estan ustedes? Estoy bien aqui en Costa Rica.
Sin mi enfermedad, mi viaje a Puerto Viejo estaba muy divertido. Puerto Viejo es un lugar muy diferente que otras lugares que he visitado. La gente alli es un poco extrano y no hace mucho. Hay un gran influencia Jaimaca, entonces la comida y la gente son diferente. Sin embargo, me gustaria mucho. El viernes 5 amigias mia y yo fuimos a un restarante que tenia musica en vivo y personas que hacia trucos con fuego, que se llama en los estados unidos "flame twirlers". Fue muy interesante. El sabido fuimos a la playa para bucear con snorkel, surfear y nadar. Yo no pude bucear, ni surfear, porque me dieron miedo, pero yo nadi mucho. Luego nosotros fuimos a un resturante y despues algunos de nosotros fuimos a bailar en un bar. Fue tan divertido. Bailemos la salsa, el merengue y el cumbia por horas. Que divertido! El domingo aquilaremos bicicletas y fuimos a una otra playa que se llama, punta uva. Ella es tan bonita! Por el camino a la playa nosotros paramos en un plantacion de chocolate y compramos chocolate. Luego regresemos a San Jose. Fue mi viaje favorito hasta yo he llegado.
Me gusta mucho la escuela y las profesoras alli. Yo estoy aprendido mucho, yo espero que sea evidente en mis mensajes! Hasta luego!
