Beth's Costa Rican Adventures - get all up in there.

4/2/2002

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1)Juan Diego and Carlos Ricardo (my “brothers”), on their bike in front of the house 9)A pic of me, cousin Kenneth, cousin Cynthia, Beatrice, and Carlos in the cousin’s house. We had went there for coffee this Sat. afternoon. I was attempting to translate Kenneth’s English CD’s into Spanish. 10)My host “mom” in our kitchen (always cooking!)
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12)My cousins in the back of my “grandma’s” house (the house where the entire family generally congregates every Sunday for dinner). The family is enormous! Did I catch the wandering chickens? 13)Me and my “cousins” and “brother” in a lemon tree outside the grandma’s house. 14)Their parrot
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15)More cousins in the kitchen of my grandma’s house. She prefers to cook from the wood-burning stove, although I believe she also has an electric one. 16)My second grade class (about the only part of this particular lesson I liked…ugh!) 2)Juan and Carlos sitting on the truck (used for transporting coffee in the back)
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17)Pic of my fifth grade cflass in the lunch room. The cook in the background staggers the lunches (because there is not enough room for all the kids at one time), and just interrupts my class to have lunch for ten minutes. Notice the toothbrushes on th 19)Me and my siblings hanging out in my room on my bed at night. A typical activity is just chatting with them, and them flipping through my cd book, counting the cd’s, etc. (Notice my “bible”-the Spanish/English dictionary.) 20)A pic of the crowd of people in my town gathering around in the “plaza” (soccer field) to see the helicopter (that I alluded to in an email). Wow, was that a big deal! We left school during a class so that the kids could go sit in the helicopter. I t