Tranquilo is the word used by locals to describe Monteverde. You can probably guess the meaning of it...peaceful. I am enjoying the slow, yet interesting pace of life here. On Wednesday nights, I go to a salsa dancing class and every Saturday we play a long game of ultimate frisbee. Soccer isn't the only sport Tico's excel in! I also joined a choir, and we sing beautiful Spanish hymns and other pieces. This past Friday I ran into some people from choir at a Scrabble game, it was mostly the elders in the community and they played Scrabble like I have never seen before! I had my head buried in a dictionary trying to keep up. Right now the streets are running with water from the pouring rain but everything is still beautiful. The rainy season is beggining and the palm trees are a bright green, along with all the other lush plants in the rainforest. Last weekend I was in Puntarenas for the Dia de Indepencia torch run..some classmates and I got on the bus with other students from the Centro de Creativo y El Colegio esculas and we drove down to meet the torch, signifying Costa Rica's indepenence. People had been running with the torch since Guatemala, accompanied by about 40 or 50 firetrucks, police cars, ambulences, ect. Where we met the torch was where it entered a new district so all the sirens and noise stopped as the runners held the torch up high in the pitch black 2:30 AM darkness and we sung the national anthem. Then the noise started again as we lit the Monteverde torch and continued on. We ran all night long, climbing in and out of the back of a pick up truck and the buses, running hard and holding the torch high. We got to Santa Elena at about 8:30, where the people were out on the streets as the sirens echoed and our tired legs kept running...it was a truly amazing experience.
I am about to get washed away in the rain, so I'm going to begin the trek home :)
I will try to find time to update a little more but I love you all back home and hope things are great!
I'm praying for you always and appreciate your prayers too!
Emma
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