thanks for the inconvenience...

wow, a lot has happened in a week!!!! i moved in thursday and was all by my lonesome in a huge house, but i survived. i got a roomie the next morning. she was nice - but kind of a loner... i met the other new teachers who all live within a 2 minute walk from my original house. we decided to grab some lunch and possibly go to the store. soooo - we all met and walked to find a restaurant. on the menu TACOS. we all ordered the same dish, haha - but it was very tasty. afterward we stopped by the gym (our school gives us a gym membership) and then headed home.

everyone headed back to their respective houses, but i went to the store with two girls. what an experience! i wsa shocked at how large the store was, honestly big as a super walmart - i told you guys this was a happening town hahaha. after 2 hours of gettin aquainted with the "Soriana" as it's called we headed home. the whole group of us got together for margaritas and a good old game of catch phrase. boy was that fun, we played a few rounds until the phrases started repeating then we threw in a curveball of a rule - you could only use 5 words to explain.... that got interesting. after a while the party wound down and i returned to my lonely house with my loner of a roommate.

saturday was a chill day at the pool, with a rendevouz at a different house for some tasty rice and beans, made by me. then sunday was another chill day, i hung out and slept a bit late and later in the evening we had a get together at yet another house for a good game of phase 10. this was the night i seriously started considering moving, because i saw how i was intereacting with a bunch of other people and wasn't happy in my room assingment.

monday was the start of orientation, which was sort of overwhelming - we learned about our social security benefits under the socialized medicine here and we also were given a presentation of our major medical insurance. unfortunately, the explanation was in spanish so all the intricate details were lost in translation - sufficed to say i do NOT plan on needing that!!! as for the social security - if you are sick one day from work you have to go to the social security medical center for a doctor's note. essentially they divide the people up by name, so if you have a last name from A-M you can only be seen in the morning hours and you have to get there early because a line starts forming around 6 in the AM, everyone else is in the afternoon and you need to get there early too... so hopefully i stay healthy as can be :)

it was also on monday that the people at shcool realized they made a faux pas with housing and needed to move the guys to another house because there wasn't enough rooms to accomodate all the guys that would be arriving. SOOOO, i saw this as a perfect opportunity to get on the bandwagon and move too. the school felt AWFUL about making so many people have to repack up their stuff and switch houses, but it honestly didn't take much longer than like an hour because noone has that much stuff and because the houses are so close together. we went for lunch, where i ordered a "chile relleno" which is a stuffed pepper, or so it is in costa rica and my mind.... when it arrived there was A pepper with some cheese in it that was fried in some sort of dough. luckily the guy took pity on my and gave me three or four tortillas to have with it. i would have starved if not for a chalupa that jenna gave me. thank you friend!

so once everyone was moved i told my room mate i would be more comfortable living in "Casa C" and her response was "Okay." haha, that was easy!!! so i moved and in about an hour i was in business in my new place. that takes us to monday....

tuesday was more of just basic school information and getting our curriculum. in the evening we got a call from the school saying they were sending over tacos as an apology for the house switch and a thank you for the cooperation. the call was at 8pm, because dinner is done late here. we waited while watching a movie and finally another call came in at 10pm, it was the school saying we had to wait outside for the tacos because the delivery guy couldn't find the house. so 2 hours later jenna and i went outside to wait for the tacos. and boy did he deliver. there were like 25 tacos in all with tons of salsas. mmmmm were they tasty!!!! the ladies at the school attached a note - "Thanks for the inconvenience. We want you to be happy and comfortable." I'm pretty sure they meant to say "Sorry for the inconvenience" - yet another thing lost in translation.

another blog to follow with the rundown of the past few days!!!