Orientation Week & Spanish Classes

So this first week here was a orientation week for me. I had private orientation meetings and Spanish classes at the ACI office since I arrived at different time than the other volunteers.

People at the ACI CR office seem to be really nice. I especially like Raquel, who is 19 year old Costa Rican girl. She doesn't work at ACI everyday but goes to university at the time. She was my guide for the first days. So in the mornings she came to pick me up and then we went to the office together and same in the evenings. On Tuesday evening I already came back alone! Hurray.

My Spanish teacher was a young guy called Lester. He was really nice and a good teacher. He only spoke Spanish and explained everything in Spanish as logn as I understood him. I feel like I learned a lot. And he told me that I was a good student. Apparently he also told that to the people working at ACI office since some of them mentioned that I was told to be a good student and that my Spanish has improved in a week. Well I mean, I still don't know much, but I am a lot better than a week ago.



Lester and me.

What else. Well, I visited my project with Jonas (my contact person at ACI). I got to know that there is another volunteer at the project, Hannah from Germany. She has been there since August already. And the center is run by nuns, which I didn't know...

Apart from orientation and Spanish classes I haven't done much. I get home at 5-6 in the evening and I am too tired to do anything special.

Yesterday on the way back home I got lost. I took a bus to Escazú but not to Escazú centro, so I ended up to San Rafael. I realized I was going wrong way and jumped of in front of Plaza Colonial and called home. Then one of my host sisters came to pick me up.

Alright, tomorrow I am going to some volunteering event organised by ACI. Should be nice, I will meet other volunteers too! And on Sunday I will go to Volcan Poás with Raquel!

I am already travelling to Panama in a week! I will be there from Sunday to Thursday.