Tuesday 9/16/08

My body has gotten so used to waking up early, that even on days when I don’t have to my body gets itself up and ready by 6am. So, I jumped out of bed and went for a run. Every morning it’s getting hotter and hotter (as there are only two seasons here, winter and summer and we are slowly heading into the summer season). Usually, I would head to class by 6:30, but this week our schedule changed. Now I don’t have to be at class on Tuesdays and Thursdays until 1 pm. Being the nerd I am though, I already have all my homework done, so now with this extra morning time I have I can early get ahead on my reading or hang out with my family. I’m such a morning person. I would’ve preferred to leave the schedule how it was and get my classes done early in the morning and had to afternoons to study and play. Oh well! After lunch I jumped on the bus to meet my class at the National Theater. From there, we jumped on another bus because today we had a “field trip”. We went to the US Embassy and heard the very North American perspective on issues involving Costa Rica and Latin America as a whole. They were thoroughly impressed by how well educated we were about the issues, but also appeared to become more and more agitated as we delved into questions that challenged the neatly packaged American perspective on politics, economics, and other foreign affairs involving the US and Latin America. On Thursday we get to meet with Costa Rican presidential candidate, Ottón Solis, to hear the Latin American perspective on the same issues that were presented at the US Embassy. If he wins the next elections I can say that I’ve met the Costa Rican president! I came home, did homework, ate dinner, and headed off to bed (a very typical Tuesday evening for me)