Costa Rica: dia typico

Here is Maren and my typical schedule each day here in Costa Rica:

X wake up between 530&6am 

X scripture study, journal writing, reading, breakfast that generally includes more eggs than I ever eat      (not a huge fan of eggs) often with some rice left out from the night before 

X 835 am start the walk to the busstop and after our 30 min drive to Heredia take another 20 minute bus to our center

X at this second bus stop expect atleast one person to try and tell you it's the wrong bus for you because you don't look like the people generally taking this bus to a really poor area and expect atleast one person to try to sell you something. Anything really. Oh and plug your nose because the smells on the way to this busstop are unreal...so disgusting. 

X 10am arrive at the center and play with kids all day. For me this is mostly doing crafts then watching the kids as they go to recess and going across the monkey bars (sounds like: bars-o-manos) because they think it is so funny when I do it. Then translating random words and phrases into English because they love to learn them and explain to them that I don't have a boyfriend ever day. Then I just have to be available to read stories, create new crafts, swing on the swings (colombios) or write secret love letters on demand.

X around 3/4 pm we leave and normally stop at the supermarket (Mas x Menos) or get some ice cream at POPS (okay so we've only done that twice..) 

X ride our 4th bus for the day back to our host family's house for a very crowded very claustrophobic 30 mins where someone may or may not have called you benches..[at least it sounded that way with an accent ;) ] but hey that's only happened once. 

X return "home," read, eat more beans and rice, and enjoy freak thunder and rain storms on the front porch

Oh & here are a couple pictures: