Weekend…then Nicaragua! Btw…EARTHQUAKE!

SO incredibly pumped that it’s finally the weekend. This has been a long, big-assignment filled week, but I’ve made it through. And I’m pretty sure that most of them went pretty well.

Got to talk to a few of my best friends and my mom last night- always makes life a little bit better and enables me to not be completely ignorant to life back in the states. As awesome as things are down here and as much as I’m looking forward to what God has in store for these next two months, I’m also very aware of where December 16th is on the calendar.

Today we had our “graduation” from ICADS- two of our classes are now complete. Crazy, but incredibly relieving. I really will miss our walks to and from ICADS, though- at least on the days it wasn’t raining. We actually made it through the entire week without rain. Weird.

EDIT ADDITION: Tonight around 8, I was up on the computer talking to some friends on Skype when all of a sudden it sounded and felt like someone was jumping hard on the roof. I really wasn’t sure what was going on for a second, but then I realized that it must be an earthquake. About that time, my tica mom yelled to me from downstairs, “Roberto! Está temblando!” So I grabbed my laptop and ran downstairs to join them. It was really crazy- I’ve never experienced an earthquake before. We sat around for a while checking the news and eventually found out that it registered between a 5.6 and a 5.9 on the Richter scale- depending on the source you asked- and covered a span of 98 kilometers (about 60 miles). SO crazy!

Not really sure what I’m gonna do this weekend. At this point I don’t really have plans, but that doesn’t mean that my family won’t spring something on me last minute. I’m sorta hoping that happens this weekend, because, as I said, I didn’t really plan anything. If nothing’s going on tomorrow, I may just venture into San José and see what’s going on. I really need to get a haircut, if nothing else.

Monday we leave for Nicaragua for 11 days, including travel time. I’m sorta looking forward to the change of pace- it’s definitely coming at the right time. I know that a lot of us have been burning out a little bit of our current routine. It’ll be cool to experience life in another Central American country.

With that said, this will (most likely) be the last post from me for a little while. There’s a really good chance that I won’t have internet access until the end of our trip, so I will bring some more news then. In the mean time, feel free to leave any questions that you might have about life down here, and I will be glad to answer them when I return to the land of the internet. Love and miss you all.

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~ by robertmvnu on October 8, 2010.