We've been through every kind of rain there is, little bitty stinging rain,and big old fat rain,rain that flew in sideways, and sometimes....

I now know why Costa Rica has so many rainforests. Today around 1:30, after a morning so hot I may have worn my fedora (that's for you dramawiz), a weird noise hit the house. It was rain like I have never seen rain before. It was like buckets of water being thrown at the ground.

I had a 1 minute walk to the center and I got soaked. Water at certain points was up to my knees. There was a dead rat earlier on the sidewalk, and it just floated on by me. I tried and failed to not think about all the other things possibly floating around my submerged feet. I just cannot belive how fast the cement flooded. I'm very grateful I brought my water shoes, not just for rivers anymore, for the streets of San Pedro tambien.

While soaking wet I went on to visit the orphanage I will be volunterring at. It is an orphange with tempory housing for children who have been taken away from their parents for one reason or another. The children run from 0 to 6 and the few I met are just pricless. One boy, Aron 5, upon learning that my co-worker does not speak any spanish, told her in spanish "I like that you do not know how to speak spanish" and then started laughing. I was very impressed. And now know to keep an eye on him.

I'm beginning to suspect my host mom speaks english rather perfectly. I was attempting to translate what Asheley (my roommate who doesn't speak spanish) and I were discussing and she seemed pretty knowledgeble despite my lack of palabras. I had my first spanish class today, and I learned the different meanings of pensar. Not that I can explain them now that the class is over.

I may go out with some new friends and see the town, if I can manage to not fall asleep. The fact that I don't have internet at my host house makes the possiblity of me going out highly more likely, so I guess that is good.

-Christine