Sonntag, 23. September 2012

Death happens everytime and everywhere, even in paradise.
A friend of my hostsister had a terrible car accident on friday, there were 3 others in the car with him, all only 18 years old and just finished their A-Levels. 1 survived.
It was and is really sad. But I tried to be strong, to be there for my sister. I say sister because it really feels like she's my sister now. I spend the whole day on the big service and the funeral. Saw a lot of people crying and must admit that I dropped one or two tears too.
But things like that happen we can only try to forget and go on.

Samstag, 15. September 2012

15 de setiembre

Happy Independence Day!
Costa Rica shares this day for an example with Mexico and Guatemala. The celebrations here are really nice. Yesterday we had celebrations in school, including some dances, music and a lot of food.
Today we went to San José to watch de big parade, it was pretty similar to the one yesterday just muuuuuuch bigger. Here are some photos.

 typical dance
my school



Mittwoch, 5. September 2012

earthquake

Soo suddenly an earthquake...
Don't worry, I'm fine! Here in San José it wasn't that strong, yeah we had to leave our class and go outside, but nothing bad happened. But my hostfather picked my sister and me up, so now I'm at home.
But the earthquake was damn strong (in the epicenter Nicoya, Guanacaste) about 7.9 so it caused a lot of  damage in Guanacaste. Short there was tsunami allert in the pacific coast, but it was cancelled.
Earthquakes happe 3 to 5 times a year, so we gonna see how strong they can be ;)