Back in school again!

We just finished our 2nd full week of language school here in San Jose, Costa Rica. We live about a mile from the school, so we take a taxi part way and walk the rest of the way (I can't walk all the way with my bad knees).

We've already learned alot, and our heads are full by the end of the night! We have been given tons of homework every night from the 1st day of school, plus we have to go out and meet with 10 Tican's (as they call the locals here) that we meet away from the school (same people every week if possible) and practice with them as our Interaction class. We have to fill out a journal on our times with these people and report them to our teacher weekly. On Friday, our Conversation teacher taught us to make the traditional Costa Rican dish, called "Gallo Pinto"...which is basically black beans and rice mixed together with cilantro, garlic, celery, onion and a sause. Its ok, but it's definitely NOT Mexican...or as good:).


We had a Cowboys get-together last Sat. and a Packer's get-together at our house last Sunday, which was fun. As you know, the Cowboys lost...so all of our fellow Cowboy friends have now switched over to Back the Pack with us! Can't wait till tomorrow to see how the Packers do!

Beautiful Costa Rica!

This is a beautiful country! So much green and the mountains are georgous. We have a one bedroom apartment, fully furnished with "grandma's deco's", and a nice landlord who lives next door. He is from N.York but has lived here with his Costa Rican wife for 47 years. Her mother also lives with them, and will turn 101 next week!



The city really reminds us of Monterrey, except the streets are all hilly (we're high in the mountains), and there are no...no street names! We took a taxi to the store today, and to get home we had to tell the taxi driver that we are "300 meters south of the bank and 50 meters east"...then you just look till you find your street and house! We live about 1-1/2 miles from the school, so will be taking taxis everyday since I (Debbi) can't walk that far with my knees. The weather is absolutely wonderful....just a bit windy from the downdrafts of the mountains (makes the windows rattle all night:), and even a bit chilly at night!



Today we'll take a tour of the city with the school, then start orientation & classes on Monday (took our placement tests yesterday). I'll take photos of our house and post them soon.



Sure miss our kids and dog....and all of our friends, but soon we'll have our Vonage phone hooked up (about a week) and we'll be using our old cell number, so it'll be a call to McAllen, TX!





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"I'm leaving, on a jet plane..don't know when I'll be back again"

We have been busy, busy, busy! Roger and I got all of our stuff loaded in a U-Haul and put in a storage unit in the RGV this past weekend, then drove to Corpus to do a service in a new church plant...had lunch on the causeway to Padre Island with the Pastor and family and fun friends (great place to eat fish at...called Snoopys). Then we drove back to McAllen to pick up Jeremy and he drove to Alice with us to drop us off at Bifferts, then he took our car back with him. We are staying here with our friends until tomorrow morning...getting up at 3am to dressand leave for Corpus airport)...then we're flying off to Costa Rica, finally! We are all packed and finally having a chance to get excited about it. You know,,,,we love the good ole USA, but we're outta here anyway! Now its on to our next adventure with God...language study!
I will be posting photos soon and updating you on how things are going. So, stay tuned!