Oops.

Yeah…it’s been a while since I’ve updated this…for those of you who actually read it, I’m sorry! I haven’t even had much going on…I guess that was the problem. I didn’t have much to talk about! I’ve just been working at the daycare full time which is exhausting but very rewarding, and I’ve been sick for about a week now…I finally went to the doctor on Thursday and it turns out I have a sinus infection, and maybe had pink eye? I don’t know, the visit was in Spanish, so I understood moooost of it….that’s good, right? Anyway, I’ve got some eye drops that I have to use for a few more days and some different pills that I also have to take for a few more days. I feel much better already :-)

Since I’ve been sick and unable to work for a lot of this week, I decided to spend a lot of the time when I wasn’t sleeping applying for jobs. I’m applying everywhere, and so far just teaching jobs. We’ll see where I end up next year! Very overwhelming to think about….I think I’ll just enjoy my time in Costa Rica instead.

So, another reason why I haven’t had much to write about is because my only Costa Rican friend left me to go to school in Boston (booooo Charlie, come back!), so now I have no friends besides my housemates. :-( Haha, pretty sad, but true. Don’t get me wrong, I love my housemates, but we do spend all our time together and some of them have other friends so they aren’t always here to hang out with. As it turns out, I don’t know how to make friends outside of a school setting. Right before Christmas, I think I was making friends with some co-workers, but they are at the school, which hasn’t been in session. So I’m hopeful that after school starts I’ll be able to make friends a little easier! We’ll see, though. One good thing about this whole no friends thing is that I have had a lot of time to myself, and at first, I went a little crazy and was super bored, but then I started being productive and using the time to reflect on my time here, what else I want to get out of it, etc. It’s actually been very refreshing, and I’m getting to know myself a lot better. That sounds weird and nerdy, but it’s true, haha. I really want to start keeping in touch better with people, and I’ve failed pretty miserably at that so far, so if you guys want to help me out and shoot me an email (kelli.finch@gmail.com), I would LOVE it. :-)

So here are some pictures of what I’ve been up to in the last few weeks! Enjoy :-)

My favorite co-worker, Gloria with Moises. She is the cook...sweetest woman EVER!

Moises (porque si!)

Amanda had a birthday party and a clown. Most of the children were terrified of the clown at first, which was kind of funny. Look how excited they are!

Eric! My favorite new kid. He's super sweet and always walks up to me puckering his lips (his way of asking for a kiss...so cute!). Haha.

Milagro. She's new, and she is very cute, but she is causing proooooblems! She likes to steal toys and then show no emotion when the other kid cries about it. Her expression is almost always exactly the same, and I saw her smile for the first time the other day when I was dancing with her and twirling her around. She has a beautiful smile...just have to figure out how to get her to show it more.

Noemi. She also likes to steal toys and then pretend that she had them first. But she is suuuuper cute and sweet the rest of the time.

Carlitos! He loves to shout "VEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VEA VEA VEA VEA VEA MUCHACHA VEAAAAAAAA!" (looooook!!!) at me at the most inopportune times. Haha, but he is very cute.

My walk to the bus stop in the morning.

Pretty sky!

Pretty sunset :-)

I know I put pictures of Dorian up a lot, but he is just so cute. I tried to get a picture of him smiling, but my camera did not want to do it well.

I went to a mass last Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Casa Maria (where I work) at the Cathedral of San Jose...I couldn't get very good pictures because I couldn't use the flash, but it's very pretty.

More of the cathedral.

I guess it's really common here to do a "Rezo del nino" (prayer for Baby Jesus? more or less) when you take down your nativity scenes after Christmas. It's generally a gathering of family and close friends and you pray a rosary for Baby Jesus and have some food and whatnot afterward. Um, at least I think that's the point of it.... Anyway, we went to Yami's house (Liz's boss) to celebrate, and she had about 80 people over!! It was crazy, and very cool. We sang Silent Night in Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. It was a rather extravagant affair :-)

Fancy catered lunch at Yami's after the rosary.

Pretty sunset.