{"id":58,"date":"2007-05-09T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2013-10-26T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:06:03","slug":"arriving-in-costa-ricaschool-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/locations\/costa-rica\/arriving-in-costa-ricaschool-has-started.php","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Costa Rica&#8230;school has started!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pic-box size-full wp-image-1499 alignright\"  title=\"Costa Rica\" alt=\"costarica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/costarica.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" \/>Hola!<\/p>\n<p>I arrived in Costa Rica without any problems at all on Saturday evening and slept for over 10 hours at the B&amp;B in San Joaqiun de Flores. On Sunday I and the other students staying at the B&amp;B did get to enjoy a very bumpy bus ride to Monteverde.<\/p>\n<p>I was really excited to meet my host family and was very pleased when I met them and found out that they were really nice people. They didn&#8217;t speak a word of English so I got to practice my Spanish immediately! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I noticed right away that my Spanish was much better than I thought it was. School started on monday morning. I&#8217;m in the same group as an american university teacher and we&#8217;re got a really nice teacher. The studies are very intensive but I feel that I&#8217;m making progress all the time. Today I surprised myself by managing to explain how the Finnish democracy works in Spanish! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;m going to compare my football skills with the Costa Ricans &#8211; that will be great fun! Yesterday me and a couple of other students went on a guided night walk in the rainforest. We got to see many interesting animals, for example a big tarantula and an enormous amount of army ants!<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to get home to my host family and do my homework!<\/p>\n<p>Hasta luego!<\/p>\n<p><em>Jens <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola! I arrived in Costa Rica without any problems at all on Saturday evening and slept for over 10 hours at the B&amp;B in San Joaqiun de Flores. On Sunday I and the other students staying at the B&amp;B did get to enjoy a very bumpy bus ride to Monteverde. 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