Una visita rapida

Buenos! That is short for "Good day" which in Spanish is "Buenos Dias."

First off, my apologies. This blog entry might not be the most exciting, but I just want to fill you in on my first week here, before too much time goes by. I promise I will be more creative next time! Now for my address, which some friends and family have requested.

Lindy Scott - Kaitlyn Le Baudour
Apartado Postal 108-3015
San Rafael de Heredia, Costa Rica
40501 Central America
*YOU MUST WRITE LINDY SCOTT AND COSTA RICA IF YOU SEND ANYTHING

I just want to say, and no offense Mom and Dad, but for the first time in my life taking the three planes and 14 hours to get to Costa Rica felt like I was finally coming home. Maybe it was the two weeks extra xmas vacation to build up the anticipation, but I think it was the 21 years of waiting to finally be in a country where I can speak the language and live the culture God has given me a heart for. Here are a few pics and some explanations of what my first week has entailed. Read or just look at the pictures, whatever you have time for or what tickles your fancy.


-Bienvenida a mi nueva escuela! Welcome to my new school! Imagine a mountain, a very green mountain. Not green from leaves the size of your head or all those other tropical plants that are coming to your mind right now, just normal forest green like our trees in North America. You've got that? Okay, now imaging a crater in this mountain, not too big, not too small, but just right. Now add swooshing wind that dips and dives in and out of the crater dancing along its bowl shaped edges and you have the location of the Whitworth Costa Rica Center. Basically, we are living inside of a cloud. I am living here this week until I move in with my host mom on Saturday, and this is where I am taking all of my classes.

- My first day in, those of us who were here decided to take hike up further into the mountains. The road, which might as well be a trail, was busy with avid mountain bikers and hikers. Costa Rica is not the norm when it comes to Central or South American countries, so if you are thinking dirty and poor, you are right! But there is also clean and well dressed, and any combination in between.
Oh, and I cannot forget the dogs. Costa Rica probably has about 50 dogs to the person. They are everywhere! The boy in this picture ran by us while we were hiking with a pack of 10 dogs surrounding him. I think only one or two belonged to him.

 -This is a horse. No other explanation. We just hiked by it and I thought it was neat looking. He lived outside with a rooster and another dog.

- Yesterday we spent the day plunging into the closest town to our school, San Rafael, as well as the closest bigger city, Heredia. All the towns are built around a central plaza with the main church facing west. This pic was taken on the local soccer field/cancho. I'm the one who isn't actually doing a hand stand, but some sort of upside down karate kick. What can I say, I like to stand out.

- Any place with signs that warn cars about soccer players/futbolistas and not the other way around is the best place in the world.

Need I say more?




Today we started school, I only have school in the afternoons this month so in the morning I did hw and did some manual labor on the property building a path out of rocks with a man named Julio. Starting this Saturday I will begin an internship with a Mennonite church who puts on programs for immigrants from Nicaragua. On Monday afternoons I will hopefully be working in a local Heladeria/Ice Cream Shop or Panaderia/Bakery in San Rafa so I can experience a different side of the Tico (slang for Costa Ricans) life. Hopefully I'll pick up some great new vocab too.

Alrighty, I'll fill you in again soon, and for all of you who have never read any of my journal entries or my personal writings, which is pretty much every single one of you, I like to be creative, so I can't wait to get started for real. I am making friends, like that girl with me in this photo, she is my roommate for the week. But I could still use prayers for that.

Te quiero! Te amo! Hasta pronto!

PTL...bucky

p.s. A girl from Whitworth is on the volleyball team there and brought the insanity videos so we are doing them every morning. HUGE BLESSING! Also, we are daily recruiting more people to join us. We've had to upgrade to a projector and big classroom. The only thing that would make it better would be if Shawn T could be dubbed in spanish.

p.p.s. When we went on our hike I didn't know where I wanted to look more, up or down. If I looked up I saw amazing plants and vistas, as well breeds of dogs I've never seen before, but if I looked down I saw the most amazing rocks! I am definitely taking some samples back. Geology, you are re-converting me into a nerd.

p.p.p.s. BEAND AND RICE FOR EVERY MEAL!!!!!