4:00am - wake up with birds chattering out my window and a rooster going crazy
4:10am - go back to sleep
6:30am - wake up and out of bed, shower and dress
7:10am - Come to the kitchen for breakfast which always consists of fresh bread and coffee.
Some days my tican mom serves a huge plate of fruit, others cereal, but when I’m
lucky I get a huge plate of gallo pinto
7:35am - head to the bus stop for Conversa about 7 blocks away.
7:50am - catch the bus in the town center
8:00am - Arrive at school and shoot the breeze with the professores
8:30am - Class begins: first set of class usually consists of conversation of what you did in
the past day, new grammar
10:30am - coffee break and snack
11:00am - Grammar exercises and trying to apply new grammar to conversation
1:00pm - lunch
2:00pm - “Super-Intensive” students stay at school. I have enrolled in this course in hopes
to acquire the language a little more quickly. Usually consists of applying past
grammar that I’ve had trouble with. Asking questions about Costa Rican culture etc…
3:30pm - Class ends
4:00pm - Get back to Santa Ana center. Either run a few errands at the bank, grab a happy
hour beer, hang out with the other students.
5:00pm - Am usually back at my house to help Laura prepare dinner. Gustavo usually arrives
around 6 and we eat dinner with the news on in the background. We finish dinner
and I usually do dishes and help with clean up.
7-9pm - I usually spend studying or review my notes from the day. Since the days begin
so early here, I’m usually do not stay up past 10 or 11pm.
