Photo Booth

We're in the middle of some crazy paper writing right now, so I'm mostly going to post pictures to tell my stories of the past two weeks or so.  Here's my little photo booth :)

On the right is Monica showing her final project of our Latin American Studies class.  She's a Tica (Costa Rican), so she always has a very interesting perspective on what we're studying.  Here, she painted various parts of Latin American/Costa Rican history and present day realities that we talked about.  The bubble in the middle represents the little world that she often finds herself in, rather than being aware of past and present tragedies and beauty of Latin America.  I know that I often find myself in a similar mindset, living in my own little bubble until I am exposed to the bigger picture, to different perspectives, to what is really going on in the world, and how I can be a part of positive change and transformation.

One of my special Saturday morning breakfasts creatively prepared by Chef Manuel.  He gets pretty into it.  He explained the artistically arranged fruit (that I get every morning- so spoiled!) as a big pineapple-orange sun with little banana moons all around :)  He cracks me up! 

Here's the chef himself with a nice pineapple!  Little fact I learned this weekend:  right now, every 2 in 3 pineapples sold in the U.S. is from Costa Rica, so we're enjoying the same fruit! 

Hilda and I at la feria (like a farmer's market) in Heredia.  They go every weekend to buy the fruits and vegetables needed for the week.

The greenhouse they just built up at the Costa Rica Center- pretty sweet huh?!

A cloud rolling over the Continental Divide right by campus at sunset, leaving me awe-struck!

My supervisor Flory and I at the clinic.  This is my little "uniform" for now :) 

Here's the real Flory!  She has some personality for sure :)  Here I told her to show off her nurse's cap and this is the pose she struck.  I appreciate her so much.  I am learning and getting to do so much.  She has done so many awesome jobs.  We have a lot of good conversations and laughs.

My favorite ketchup and the new chai Mom just sent me!

Drinking the chai tea!  Hilda liked it :)

A beautiful sunset from the balcony of Sylvia's house next door

A nice hang-out outside with Bean and Emily- two awesome, encouraging, unique, and fun friends of mine!

Here's a little dance video we did around San Rafael and the campus this past Saturday.  I hope you enjoy!  P.S. I'm the one in the brightly-colored, rather large workout suit from the 80s/90s with my brother's black sunglasses :)