Welcome to the menagerie in my shower.

Hola a todos!
We´re still here in rainy Costa Rica.
Not a whole lot has really happened since we last updated. We realized that we live in the boondocks, and not in an actual recognizable city. (By recognizable, I mean that when you get on a bus, the name of Carillos isn´t in the window that tells you where you are going. You have to get on the bus that goes to the nearest largest city and hop off early.) Here are the things that people like to do in the Boondocks called Carillos Bajo:

• Taxistas like to say ´Hey baby! I love you!´when you walk past them.
• Guard dogs like to kill cats and leave their corpses in the yard as a warning to other cats.
• Host dads named Tito like to drive semi truck cabs that have pictures of American eagles in front of confederate flags on the door.
• EVERYONE (including us and some of our teachers and bus drivers) like to sing karaoke at the Pavo Real bar (which means Peacock in Spanish).

Also in Carillos Bajo, my host mom likes to teach me life lessons. Here are some:

• If you eat all of the food you normally eat plus a bowl of diet cereal, it will help you to not get fat.
  
• If you have a headache, take at least three different pills to cure it, even if the pills aren´t meant for headaches.
• Dogs who have fleas are healthier because it causes them to have stronger immune systems.
• If you wear sandals, you WILL get sick.
• It´s good to have bugs in the house because it teaches us that we need to learn to share our space will all of God´s living creatures.
• It´s good to have lizards in the house because they eat the bugs.

I hope that I have imparted a little bit of wisdom in this post, even though I´m sure it wasn´t that entertaining. Now I have to go do homework, so I will leave you with this quote which I have to write about for tomorrow. Let me know what you think of it.

´Es tan corto el amore y es tan largo el olvido.´ Neruda