Maybe just a drop in the bucket...but a big drop

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  Orosi, Costa Rica
Monday, February 5, 2007

I leave Orosi in an hour.  It seems strange to think that this will no longer be my home, that I won't be spending mornings learning Spanish at Otiak, or evenings playing cards and enjoying a few Imperials at Coto.  It's just so strange that I won't be able to giggle over coffee with Steph, Liz, and Christina every day while recounting the antics of the night before.  John won't be around to take the much needed walks around town.  And I know I'm going to miss Kathryn's laugh!  It's the kind of laugh that makes everyone else join in, even if they don't know what's so funny.  I'll miss Alex's funny faces and best bad white boy dance moves ever.  And where will I ever find someone as competitive as Steve is in spoons?  Definitely no one who has such a striking resemblance to Shaggy!  It's just so mindbogglingly strange to me that in an hour I won't be surrounded by these friends that have been so integral in my Costa Rican experience.

3rd Grade in Orosi

I leave Orosi in an hour.  And I'm scared.  This place, so foreign at first, a place where I got lost going everywhere for the first week, and I see it now as a home.  Meri, Carolina, and Johana are my family.  My room is pink and covered in Tiger Beat pictures of David Beckham.  I have a kitten named Benjamin, aka Gato Loco, who cuddles or plays with me when I'm feeling down.  Reina greets me with a halfhearted bark or little wag of the tail whenever I come through the gate.  When I walk down the street to go to Otiak or Coto or the plaza, students I've had in my English classes yell, "Hola!" as they pass on their bikes.  Little old ladies smile at me and the old men nod.  I didn't even feel it happening, but I've become part of this community.  We've played BINGO together, danced together, and everyone saw me make a fool of myself on the soccer field in the Voluntario game.  Orosi, so scary at first, has become my home.

I leave Orosi in an hour.  Laden down with my last bags crammed full of books and clothes and pictures, I will make my way to La Estrella del Guarco.  My new home will be "The Star" and it will be an incredible adventure, one I look towards with excitement and fear, with nervousness and strength.  In two days I will be an English teacher, a real one.  I will have new students and I will slowly but surely become part of this small mountain community.  My room will be a different color with different pictures on the wall.  I will have a new dog and a new family.  And though I know that I will make new friends and grow to love La Estrella and my family there, Orosi and the people I met here will always hold a special place in my heart.  I've spent a month here, and though in the course of the year it may just be a drop in the bucket,  it was a big drop.     

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A Killer Game of Spoons...er, pens...	aawwwww....	After the soccer game	Alex playing the Blow Game
Alex, Me, Kathryn, John, Liz, and Steph	And Xander appears...	Another hot tub picture	At the Coto
Attack of the killer caterpiller	Believe it or not, I caught it!!!	BINGO night	Carolina, Don Juan, and Meri
Crazy picture of Jim with someone else´s hair	Danielle and Glory	First shot of guaro...	Giving out awards at the end of summer school
Glory, Me, and Steph at the first social thing	Good times	Goodbye Orosi, Hello BEACH!!!	Group pic at family night
Group picture on Nano´s Hike	Hot Tub Night	Hot tub night...again	Jim and Me at Family Night
Jim wishing he was coming with us to PV	Johana	John "playing soccer"	John and his dog
John and Me (first WT social night at Coto)	Karaoke minus the microphone...as it should be	Karaoke Queens	Kathryn and her brother
Kathryn, Danielle, Me, and Liz G	Katie and Steve barhop night	Katie, Christina, and Ricki night of the bar hop	Kelly and Lucy
Kelly in Puerto Viejo	Kelly, Lucy, John, and Me	Kevin and the giant chessboard	Lindsey, Tiffany, Kevin, and Meghan
Liz and Me on the bus to Puerto Viejo	Lucky John	Me and Alex on the bus to Puerto Viejo	Me and Carolina
Me and John´s first five seconds in CR!!!	Me and Liz - Hot tub night	Me and Steph	Me, the fam, and Liz on Bingo Night
Micheal, Annie, Glory, Me, and Meghan	Minor acting out "thristy" in my third grade	Nano...Tarzan Style	Nano´s Hike
Nano´s Hike view	Oh, drunken dancing...	On the beach at Puerto Viejo	On the bus to Orosi
On the bus to Puerto Viejo	On the bus to Puerto Viejo 2	OTIAC	Puerto Viejo
Puerto Viejo - Liz, Me, Christina, Steph, Kelly	Puerto Viejo sunset	Re-enacting the famous ass injection	Spanish class
Stanford´s at Puerto Viejo	Steph and Christina hot tub night	Steph and Liz at Bread and Chocolate	Steve, Me, and Alex...hot tub night
Sunset at Puerto Viejo	Tarik and Alex at a jam session at Otiak	The Barbershop trio	The caterpiller that attacked John
The first charla when we realized CR can be cold	The Girls kicking ass in the 3-legged race	The Men of WorldTeach	The oldest church still in use in Costa Rica
The Potato Sack Race	Tiff in the karaoke bar	What field day is complete without FACE PAINTING!!	Yes, we are in a man bar!

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