Mama, Lina (hija mas grande, mas gringa), abuelita --que bellas, no? :)
mi corazon para el dia de amor-- a veces, me cuesta caminar--estaba un poco atanrantada : }

Exito!! Y tambien, yo soy ganadora, Laura es la presidenta nueva de este pais!

voleibol!! gringas y ticas/o
Bueno.
Un breve repaso de esta semana :

Domingo--acompane a mi mama y papa y dahlia para votar. Que emocion! Ninos, familias, banderas, gritas, filas, etc.
Laura gano!

Lunes: Primer dia de semana llena--me desperte solo por dios--llegue exactamente en tiempo a ICADS : }

Martes: El medio-cumple de Paige!! : D queque, fiesta, pina, etc.
Arte en Latinoamerica... panchito--who felt responsible for the bubonic plague in africa...

Miercoles: ok, perhaps a bit of english--worked and finished my 9 pg. essay on "the church in a globalized context" en espanol--ufda--creo que no es buenisimo, pero, ya.
debate en ICADS de Romero/El Salvador/Nicaragua . . .

Jueves: Don Juan--missionario en Latinoamerica con bastante experiencia, fe, cuentos etc. wow.
me calli en la calle cuando estaba caminando con heather desde ICADS : { I ate it--hence the beautiful gouge in my knee--sometimes it's tough to walk, you know?

Viernes: el ultimo dia de seminario base! We made it--and we're only at the beginning, but so much has passed. Final exam: 2 hours, group, money, resources, experience, readings, bible, etc. --Problem and action plan.
Final day working with Carina at ICADS--We worked well this week, still had fun, of course :)
POPS--cas y pina--yum! Going to Panama for break!

home, of course mom wants to feed me, then off to meet up with people downtown
oh, of course, gringa tonta, forgets her idea without even a thought, return with Hector, thanks, bud, and make it back for matt's karaoke and the discoteca with the gemelos--rafael y diego--haha yeah salsa : ] "you dance pura vida"

late night, sleep at heather's
Sabado: home late, run--steep hills, stomach ache, wooh!--, volleyball at the cutest condominiums --whitney's mom's birthday, yummy cake, new friends

Domingo--the Ferria--yay fresh fruits and veggies! agua de pipa y un hombre "loco y divertido" according to mama :] El dia de comida--ate all day it felt like as we were with my host mom's family and eating good, but bastante, food :) grandma, aunts, cousins, grandpa's house, too jaja

Dios es bueno.
Amamos porque el nos ama.
Amor tiene que ser sincilla...
Amor es . . .
God shows up in every moment when we look because he was there before we got there. Live, breathe, love. <3 Feliz Valentino!

buenas noches, hasta marzo!
<3 Lina

semana loca

Esta semana no fue demasiada loca, pero le pareci como gringa loca a veces. :)
ok, primeramente ya estoy como siempre, tarde. Al principio de este viaje, estaban en tiempo, a veces temprano, hice tarea antes de tenia que hacerlo... pero, ahora, no. : { pero, todavia, esta bien.

Esta semana ha incluido una viaje a limon con demasiado ingles despues de una charla sobre racismo y pobreza. Limon una ciudad y lugar muy bonito y tan diferente que San Jose. Visitamos a una mujer Bribri y hicimos entrivistas con la gente de Limon, comimos comida tipica y bailomos como gringos locos, pasamos tiempo en la playa de cahuitta con olas locas tambien y aprendimos de la belleza, la poblacion, y la pobreza.

Creo que mi espanol peora despues de mucho ingles cada vez, pero estoy aprendiendo cada dia, claro.

Un poco en ingles: some memories of the week

lunes: group worship at LASP : D. drank coffee which made me feel sicker than ever, unfortunately or fortunately, I don't know how to throw up...so I took dramamine--ufda! went una poca loca, luckily our fab four ICADS class is always a little weird. I pretty much crashed upon getting on the bus but still made it home : ]

martes: spinning class--que trabajo! great workout. went on our first mission of the week, paige and I, to get paraphernalia from the clubs of Laura Chinchilla--presidential candidate, but we didn't get shirts : ( made it to the class my mom teaches at church for illiterate people--it is interesting to think about how to meet people where they are at...

miercoles:Liberation Theology. huh. Spent time with an English class at a local elementary school Wed. night --teens-adults at various levels. get to know you, talk slower, tipical costa rican food--carbohydrates to the max. "schizophrenic ode to bananas" Matt dubbed the memory story we told as a group for one of the activities. :)hope we can visit again.

jueves: Finca--farm field trip to learn about environmentalism/sustainable development. The farmer we met connects with God through his farming and tries to use things the way God made them to be. beautiful land, lots of hard work, delicious coffee, juice, fruit, and bread. yum! ah. talked with laura about wheaton's diseases.
Maria full of Grace--hits hard about drug trade in Columbia.
Adventure for Laura. Traipsing around sabana, San Jose on our quest for T-shirts added a few miles to our walking for the day along with a couple buses, taxis, clubs, and a sweet bathroom until the gringos finally made it the balcon verde and received our shirts, celebrating like locos once again :)
hot dog with rice and beans for dinner. proceeded to fall asleep when I was supposed to do homework, so I wrote my paper in the middle of the night instead--woohoo yay college!

viernes: spiritual journey with LASPers--great time to come together and open up as to where we are at spiritually to some extent--stays in the circle :). yuuummmyy cinnamon rolls at break. walk to ICADS of course, surprise quiz, more of angela's amazing encounters with Dios. awesome presentations of the political candidates. bahah
futbolcinco--yay soccer :) preeettty sure we lost : ( warm shower at heather's :) met up with people later, but decided the smokey bar was not the place to be and went to a saprisa game instead!
mas x menos for an apple and popcorn after a late-10 o'clockish dinner of sweet bread and a couple potato chips haha
began an intense movie--forgot the title--late at night...killed another cockroach
return home late late in a taxi sin problemas

sabado:wake up 11:30--must have needed some rest! Left the day open for fam, but they didn't have any plans so...oh well. lots of food today from mom.
Ice cream with Dalia and swings. New furniture for Adriana and cafecito with lots of sweets/bread from the bakery and it was fun to observe the whole family together joking and interacting.
freaked out and began to cry--still not sure that I really can cry-- cause I thought I lost money cards... no worries, I just hid them too well
little cafe time to breathe. felt stupid in the store when I went to buy bread--shocker haha. because I found a little bimbo stand but it had hardly any bread which I thought was weird, so I asked an attendant who took me to an unlabeled aisle which had all kinds of pan integral (wheat bread). oops.
working on paper stuff for next week--yikes! four credits will be done by Friday!

Elecciones manana--que emocionada! bastante trafico y ruido hoy...
Tal vez superbowl
Vamonos!

Buenas Noches.

Phil. 1:6 dios es bueno.

una nota: mis emociones y digestion cambia con gran inconcecuencia... : }