Feliz año nuevo!

I'm in Monte verde with Lena and her family. We have been travelling around in Costa Rica all week and today it's time to go home to Brasilito to celebrate new years eve. This will be my last day together with Lena for an unknown amount of time as she's returning to Austria the third of January. Can't believe her exchange year is already over, time flies.

We've already been in Costa Rica for more than five months. These last two months went so fast and I feel like this half year I have left wont be enough. Sorry mom and dad, I just don't want to go home.

Christmas just simply wasn't christmas this year. I had a headache and fever all day so I spent most of the time sleeping. The only thing we did was a dinner for family and friends, and actually you don't need more than that (especially as Manolo brought his banana-chocolate cake). So it was a cozy day, AND I got to skype with my family!

Happy new year!

Really really really good Costa Rican music.

Great week

I'm just getting worse and worse in updating this blog. I'm always out doing stuff, and when I'm at home I'm always with my family. I will try and try and try to get better but you can all just assume that when I don't write I'm probably having a great time.

This week some friends visited me and we had an awesome beach/icecream eating/talking/dancing/crazy/cozy days. Yesterday I went rollerskating with Yulissa, Yailin, Fabricio and Victor, and slept over at Yulissas house afterwards. Today we made cookies and then went to Playa Flamingo in the sunset together with Katherine and Floria.

I still have some christmas gifts to buy so I will fight to find that tomorrow.It's so weird,  I really don't feel like christmas, but honestly I don't care either.

Una navidad para todos

My sister and her friends are arranging a christmasparty for the poor kids in the area this Saturday. They've been working so hard for this so I really hope (and think) that it'll be a success. The cool thing about the party is that every kid (there are more than 200) get a christmasgift, donated by (almost) 200 different persons. So kids that usually wouldn't get anything for christmas now get a doll or a game or clothes, or atleast something. And the party itself will be so cool with a lot of food (donated by hotels, supermarkets and persons) clowns, inflatables and games. Yes. I definitely think it will be a success. Hopefully the kids will think so too as they're the most important part of party.

13 december - lucia

To me it's not december, at all. It's not dark, it's not cold, it's not snowy and the house doesn't smell of gingerbread. The coziness of christmas is simply not here. Atleast not yet.

It feels like I wont take christmas that seriously this year. And I actually don't think it matters. I've got the rest of my life to celebrate it. And there are several ways to achieve that cozy feeling that I miss most of all.

First time in my life (i think) that I didn't celebrate lucia. Feels weird, but what feels even weirder is that I don't even care.

Feliz cumple

Didn't have internet on the birthday of Lovisa, so now, a little bit late, I'd like to say...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

17 years together <3
(and this should have been posted tuesday...)

Pics from rio celeste

Photos from the classtrip to rio celeste. All taken from facebook, will upload my own some other day. Just one thing, in real life the water is blueblueblue, but on the pictures it looks normal.

San josé :)

This week I've gone to the beach every day, yesterday to Conchal, wednesday to flamingo, tuesday to Conchal and monday to tamarindo. I'm more tanned than ever and I've been laughing at the snowproblem in sweden.

Now I am superexcited to go to San José to shop. After a while out here it's so nice to get to the city where there actually are people.

I feel so stupid

Thought we had vacations and then a friend called to ask if i'm going to school tomorrow... Up 4:30 to iron!

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A quick update:
Had no lessons today  (yesterday neither) so just chilled with my classmates in the schoolarea. It gets kind of boring after a couple of hours but I still love it. I like my classmates a lot and I always have someone to talk to so I get to practise a lot of Spanish too. After school I went with Hellen, Ahmed and Yasser to Las brisas to celebrate that yasser passed the bachilleratos. It's like a national test they do that is the only thing that matters for if they pass or not pass high school. It's kind of brutal and I saw many in my school today that were upset because they didn't pass.

Tomorrow will probably be kind of like today in school. And on Thursday and Friday I'm going to Rio Celeste with my class. After that I have vacations until the beginning of February. Nicenicenice.

fabulous

I've had a fabulous week and that is the one and only reason I've got for not writing that much. Next week is the last week in school and it kind of makes me sad because I like in school. I meet new people everyday and I've made some really good friends that I'm going to miss during vacations. Sure, I can see them then too, but since they live quite far away and the bussystem is not the best I won't be able to see them as often as I would like.

Yesterday I went rollerskating with Yailin and it was so much more fun than I would have ever imagined. We were dangerous and went straight into the wall multiple times, crashed with others and fell in the middle of the curves. Haha almost got run over a couple of times there... But all of the time we were laughing like I don't know what. Now afterwards I'm surprised I haven't tried it before, and I've decided to go next week too.

In an hour I'm going to Liberia with my sister to see the new twilight movie. Haha we've been so excited for this for like two weeks.

Aaand, I've received a package from Lovisa! The letter made me cry and the chocolate was the best thing I've eaten for a long time.  <3 Love story  <3

Puppyyyyy!!

When I came home from school three dogs were waiting for me at the door. I asked Anita who was the owner of the third one, the teeny tiny supercute black puppy, and she told me it was my sisters. I can't even describe how happy that made me. So now I have a one month old puppy to cuddle with all days after school. iiiiiiiiihhhh!!! :D

School today was good. I did a chemistry test (went shit, skipped half of the test because I had absolutely no idea what to write) and an english test. I don't do the tests here because I have to or because it matters for my grades or anything, I kind of just do it to be a part of the class. And to have something to do all day in school of course.

Schoolschoolschool

Today I woke up at 4:45 as usual, took a shower, ate breakfast, and walked to the schoolbus. In school I did a biologytest, which actually went really good (kind of hoping for 100% on this one), had a couple of classes and a lot of breaks. Took the bus home, studied Spanish, washed my clothes, ate, watched Greys Anatomy, and now I'm going to iron my uniform for tomorrow. Just a normal day.

Saturday

Saturday I woke up, sat down under a tree in the garden and studied Spanish for a while and a couple of hours later got chased by the geese back up to the house. My sisters friend Laura asked me if I wanted to go to Conchal so around 11 we started walking in the sun. When we got there I was surprised because compared to a week ago there were a lot of people there. I can't even imagine how it will be in December when the tourists come. Later I went with Hellen, Laura and Quinn to Playa Flamingo to see the sunset. It's more beautiful than any picture can ever show, simply amazing. In the evening we all went to a dance in Villarreal (where I go to school too). It was so so so cool. I've missed dancing.

My little studying tree

Conchal!

The sunglasses, so cool!

Internet back! Thursday - Mathtest and burial

I haven't had internet now for almost a week so I haven't had any chance to update the blog, so now I'm going to do the very best I can to fill you in about everything that has happened.

I'll start with Thursday.

The day started off with a mathstest, I had been at two mathlessons before the test so I didn't know a shit. It was a strange feeling sitting there not having any idea what to answer. I just guessed wildly on every single question feeling a bit embarrassed but knowing that the grades from this won't mean a thing.

After this one lesson the entire class went in taxi to a cementary nearby. The granddad of one of my friends had died and we all went there to support her. Apparently it's very common here that friends of the relatives go to the burial even though they've never met the person who have past away. Since this isn't that usual in Sweden I was kind of surprised, but now I feel like it's so stupid that we don't do this in Sweden. I mean, it was so easy to just go there to give her a hug, but it probably ment a lot for her.

After this I took the schoolbus home (everyone was so nervous because I was the only one going on my bus and we didn't know if the buses would stop for us. If it wouldn't have stopped I would have had to walk all the way home because I didn't have any money with me. Haha "What do we do if Fridas bus is the last one and it doesn't stop for her". Though, when the schoolbuses came it all went well and we all got home safe.

In the afternoon I went to Playa Brasilito and in the evening I went to see a soccergame in Huacas together with my hostsister and some of her friends.

Weekend in Orotina

Went to visit my good friend Bram in Orotina this weekend. I got to know his supersweet hostfamily, Orotina (which is actually exactly like every other Costa Rican city, in the center there is a park, which also always look the same, a big catholic church and some shops and bakeries) and Playa Jaco. We went there Saturday and got burned burned burned. There we ate lunch at a soda, in Costa Rica there are good sodas everywhere and they all sell almost the same things for a good price. Standard is quesadillas, burritos, nachos and casadas. Haha superhealthy...

Sunday we went to a pool in Orotina and just chilled there all day together with Brams hostbrother, hostcousin and her friend. In the evening we sat and talked for a long time with his hostparents about everything and nothing and later saw a movie with his brother. All the time I was just hoping for their dog to get her puppies, the vet had said that they would be born approximately this Monday and I really wanted to be there when they came. Have to text Bram to see if they're born yet.

Even though I didn't get to see any puppies it was a great weekend.