Playa Samara

Hola muchachos. Nosotros estamos en Playa Samara, Costa Rica. Hoy es nuestro segundo dia de clases. Me gusta mi clase, profesora y el grupo que estoy estudiendo Espanol conmigo. Ahora tenemos tiempo libre.

Hi everyone. We're at Samara beach in Costa Rica. today is our second day of clases. I like my class, teacher and the group I'm studying Spanish with. Now we have free time.

we have some great pictures to put up but not the time at the moment. It's really beautiful here. I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this. It's very tropical but very real as well. It's not like the sort of beaches you see on TV. I really love it here. The people are very real and very sweet. There are so many random things happen: Wild dogs and horses roam free and the pace of life is very slow. It's an accessible beauty that we're taking advantage of. Today we're hoping to go surfing and perhaps take a weekend trip to Monteverde and the Arenal volcano, do some kayaking and hiking.

The people that come to study here are really great too. We've met people from Europe, U.S., Canada and the U.K. It's a nice range of levels. I think that the testing system for placing students is held a bit high. Basically they do an interview of questions because they want to test your speaking, which makes sense. However, one of our friends is a Spanish major at college and was told she needed to prove she should be in a class above the level they placed her because of how she did on her interview. It's frustrating for me as well because I can listen, read and write well. Speaking I get a little nervous, mainly when we need to use specific things such as a question word and a specific verb. Which is hard in English as well. Try it. Using only the "5 W's" and words such as sing, listen and look make up questions about the past... it's hard.

Anyway, we need to go get our boards and hit the waves.

Lata