El Primer Dia

Today was the first day of class. We have our medical terminology class, taught in spanish from 8am til 12pm. And then on Mondays and Tuesdays we have our class about costa rican health care systems taught in english from 4-8:30. The professor in the morning class is really nice and very funny. He makes the class fun and he kinda of reminds me of mr. magoo. I feel like im def going to learn a lot that will benefit me down the road. The other teachers are both doctors. One is a primary care physician here in san jose and the other is a resident in neurology. Its great that we have them for the costa rica health care system class bc we have their insight on universal health care and can gain more detailed information about health care and other things related to it than if it were just a regular professor. Tonight was our tico brothers birthday. His name is luis manuel and he turned 33. Luis has down syndrome and attends a special school throughout the year most of the day. I want to say that he has the mental age of between an 8-10 year old child. He has to wear hearing aids as well, and its hard to understand him but most of the time we can figure it out. Hes such a sweet guy and hes very helpful to our tico mom. We had a fiesta for him with cake and icecream and soda too. We sang him happy birthday and he was so excited to have everyone there to celebrate. Also, today after class and when we went home for lunch they had CNN on the tv broadcasting Michael Jackson’s memorial service. It was really interesting to see the affect on the people here in costa rica. I was able to skype today and talk to my mom which was great. I think she was really amazed at how it worked so we could see each other and talk at the same time. Its hard not having a cell phone or the internet at your fingers at all times but im adjusting. Im sorta of glad that we don’t have internet at the house because then I would most likely be on it at all times instead of talking to my tico family. Hasta pronto…