El Castros

Gave my presentation today and it went really well. He said I talked and pronounced everything very well and didn’t read any notes! My talking was very smooth and clear. This was the first time I had felt some what comfortable talking in Spanish for a presentation. Lunch was amazing! I cant actually believe it! We all ended up having seconds! Emma cooked a lasagna and it was actually better than the stuff ive had at home! Didn’t make it to dance class tonight but we def made up for it at Castros. Castros is a place in San Jose that’s a bar/dance club. It was so much fun! Our whole group ended up going and hanging out together. There was a karaoke place upstairs which wasn’t as fun as the dance part downstairs. There was a pretty good size dance floor! A few of us started talking to a few local ticos that were about my age, maybe a little older! I was very excited because they had bought a bottle of bourbon at the bar so I felt at home since I was able to have a bourbon and ginger! It had been way too long. They all had perfect English but I tried to talk them in Spanish instead. They told me that they start learning English at age 4 and depending on if you go to a public school or private school determines how much of it you learn. The kids that attend private grade schools learn much more English and take classes in high school such as math, biology, chemistry, etc in English. The one guy Danny and his friend work and go to UCR (university of costa rica) they’ve started a web design company. They said that they are not fond of the kids that attend the university Veritas where we are because theyre very preppy snobby people who think they are much better than everybody else. I can definitely see where he sees that because that university is private and very expensive. All the kids are very well off that attend there. Danny asked me to go dance with him once and since I love to dance I didn’t say no. we started dancing meringue which was so much fun. I really wish that our culture had dances like that where it was common for everyone to dance the salsa, meringue, cha cha etc. I looked around while dancing not knowing what I was doing but danny was really good and was a great leader. I felt like I held my own in the mix of all ticos. Of course I was the only blonde American girl dancing with all the other locals for those dances! I haven’t had that much exercise dancing since dancing every day in high school. We all had such a blast and everyone ended up dancing by the end of the night! None of us had our keys so we had to wake up Emma at like 2 to get in the gate. She wasn’t mad but we hated to have to wake her up. To sum it all up the night was a blast and we made it home safely! Hasta pronto…