Just another school week in San José

The rest of the week was a little bit less dramatic as Superbowl Sunday. My host parents own a business called Speaking Roses Costa Rica. They print messages and pictures onto roses which they arrange for weddings, birthdays, Mother's Day, and especially Valentine's Day. They were rather busy all week getting ready for the big day. Sophia had her first day of school. She is four years old and not quite in Kindergarden, but she leaves for school extremely early in the morning and returns after lunchtime. Sophia and I watched a couple of Disney movies in Spanish throughout the week. I watched Beauty and the Beast twice and Mulan II.

Melissa and I also got a chance to watch Pocohantas in Spanish from Sophia's personal collection. However, the songs were not quite the same in Spanish. Melissa and I are keeping up with our daily workouts for the most part, but it is almost midterm time for our elective classes, so we are quite busy. During the week we went food shopping for our lunches and planned for our weekend trip to Montezuma. One day, we walked to Parque de La Paz, a huge park about a mile away from our houses. La Paz includes two big lakes with ducks and running paths around them. There is a hill in the middle of the park where kids like to go sledding. Of course there is no snow here, but they use cardboard and rubber mats to go sledding in the grass. At the top of the hill there are some benches where we could pretty much see all of San José. I am going to have to go back and take some pictures on a clearer day.

One day, we took a long walk to downtown San José. I have been downtown a number of times, but this was one of the warmest days yet. We walked around trying to find the food market that I had been to before. Unfortunately, my awful sense of direction was of no help to us. We will have to try again next week. We were able to find the Artisan Market that sells a lot of beautiful things for descent prices. There were a number of cute coffee shops, ice cream parlors, book shops, museums, churches, and other things to look at downtown.