By the time I got to my host family’s house, it was nearly 10:30pm, and I was exhausted. Opening the blue gate to their house, climbing a flight of not so level and STEEP stairs and maneuvering around the vicious “guard” dog named Mikey, I finally met my host family, and saw what was to be my home for the next 2 weeks! My room is small, yet comfortable, although, I must say, one little blanket is not nearly enough to keep me warm at night! I swear it actually gets pretty cold in San Jose at nights!
My host family is so nice. The father, a sales director, is so kind and a gregarious person. Although, he seems to have NO qualms about, hmm, how shall I say this delicately, passing gas in public! And he doesn’t even blame it on the dog! Haha. The mother is always busy cleaning, cooking or working out. She gets up at 5am every morning and begins her routine! They have four kids, three of which live in the house, a grandbaby, another exchange student from Hungary, and a partridge in a pear tree. No seriously, it’s a full house! And with one bathroom to share amongst all of us, mornings are usually run like clockwork so everyone has a chance to use the bathroom! How anti-Latin American of them! ;) So far, my time with the host family has been wonderful. What charming, friendly, and open people the ticos are! For breakfast, Christina and I get a small bowl of cereal and a glass of water, and a bowl of the best fruit I have ever eaten! So fresh! Dinner usually consists of typical tico (the Costa Ricans refer to themselves as “ticos”), meal of gallopinto (rice and beans with plantains mixed in… its good, I promise), some meat dish with coconut mixed in, chayote (a potato like food with spiky skin), and a small salad. No Starbucks, no junk food, and not really any fried crap. All and all, pretty good stuff. I’ve come to expect my rice and beans at every meal now…
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