Mein vierter Monat
From now on, I will publish all of my blog entries in English, too! Just scroll down to the end of the German text.
Nach diesem Monat sind nun auch meine 100 Tage rum, über die ich mit meiner Organisation EWN einen "Pakt" geschlossen habe, dass ich in dieser Zeit auf jeden Fall nicht aufgebe. Ok, ich muss zugeben, nach Hause wollte ich wirklich ernsthaft in keinem einzigen Moment, aber trotzdem verstehe ich den "100 Tage Pakt", denn nach dieser Zeit habe ich wirklich Freunde gefunden und es fühlt sich nun auf eine Art und Weise wie "zu Hause" an.. schwer zu erklären, aber vielleicht kann man es am Ende des Blogs nachvollziehen!
Der nun wirklich existierende Alltag war für mich ausschlaggebend dafür, darüber nachzudenken, ob ich wirklich mit allem zufrieden bin, so wie es ist.
Matthi und Lena sind diesen Monat umgezogen und leben jetzt neben der Freiwilligen-WG, das ist schon ziemlich cool! Ich habe festgestellt, dass ich einige Angewohnheiten von Ana Ligia einfach hingenommen habe, aber teilweise nicht glücklich damit war. Wir haben irgendwie eine Zeit lang ein bisschen aneinander vorbeigelebt, das Gefühl hatte ich zumindest. Also habe ich sie darauf angesprochen und wir haben unsere erste Zeit miteinander reflektiert. Nach zweieinhalb Stunden hatten wir uns ausgesprochen und ich war ziemlich zufrieden. Seitdem reden wir viel beim Essen und ich bin absolut glücklich hier! Es kam Anas Tochter Carolina, die in der Schweiz wohnt, zu Besuch, sodass es Schokolade, Brot und Schweizer Käse gab!!! Wie kann man da nicht glücklich sein... Ich war bei Familienessen mit dabei, mit Anas super lustigem Bruder Oskar und der Mami.
Die Arbeit hatte sich nicht verändert, ich warte immer noch auf mehr Aufgaben und bin in ein paar Unterrichtsstunden echt verzweifelt, nichts zu tun. Ich habe noch einmal mit meinem Mentor, dem Chef der Stiftung, geredet und ich werde hoffentlich zum kommenden Jahr Aufgaben im administrativen Bereich bekommen. Die Stiftung finde ich nämlich toll!
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| Meine Kollegen der Fundación |
Ich habe viel mit der Orientierungslehrerin, der "neuen" Karen, geredet und mir ist nun noch einmal mehr klar geworden, wie die "muchachos" (Jugendlichen) außerhalb der Stiftung leben. Sie arbeiten so hart, wohnen unter für mich noch unvorstellbaren Umständen, zahlen ihre Uniform über zwei Jahre lang ab, essen teilweise nur einmal pro Tag richtig (das Mittagessen in der Fundación)...am meisten fasziniert mich die Kraft hinter einem Mädchen, das nur die Grundschule beendet hat, aufgrund von Drogenkonsum auf der Straße lebte und sich dann selbst motiviert hat, keine Drogen mehr zu konsumieren, um sich in der Stiftung für eine Ausbildung zu bewerben und gleichzeitig zur Abendschule zu gehen, um den Schulabschluss nachzuholen. All das, habe ich am Anfang nicht annährend bemerkt! Ich freue mich, dass den Auszubildenden hier eine neue Chance gegeben wird!
Am 08. Dezember fand der Abschluss der Generation 2017/2018 statt, für die ein enormer Aufwand getrieben wurde. Es wurden selbst die Parkplätze neu gestrichen, wobei unter anderem Brandon seine ganze Hose mit Farbklecksen verschönert hatte, ich meinte zu ihm nur, ja, das wäre mir garantiert auch passiert! Wir haben bis zu den letzten Generalproben mit voller Motivation für unseren Auftritt geübt und sind eine echt tolle Gruppe geworden. Als schließlich der Tag des Auftrittes kam, haben wir uns alle zusammen fertig gemacht, alle zusammengehörig in schwarz und weinrot. Ich war sehr beeindruckt von dem Moment, in dem Daniel eine Art Rede für uns gehalten hat, wir händehaltend im Kreis standen, um uns gegenseitig Kraft zu geben. Sie haben sogar zusammen gebetet. Das werde ich nie vergessen! Es war so emotional, dass zwei ein bisschen geweint haben.
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Ephrain, Brandon, Kathery, Allison, Neylin, Angélica, Stephanie, ich, Danny, Domini, Jennifer vor dem Auftritt |
Ansonsten haben wir die Klassenräume weihnachtlich dekoriert, die "Conta-Klasse" hat Theaterstücke zu Arbeitsrechten aufgeführt und in Desarollo Personal haben wir "Etiqueta y Protocolo" gemacht, was bedeutet, dass wir gemeinsam gegessen haben und alle möglichen Tischmanieren bis ins kleine Detail gelernt haben.
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| Weihnachten mit Schraubenschlüsseln |
Man sieht daran, dass ich mich in gewisser Weise zu Hause fühle, dass ich kaum Ausflüge gemacht habe und sehr viel Zeit mit Freunden in San José verbracht habe.
Das erste Wochenende dieses Monats war ich noch auf einem super spannenden Trip zum Vulkan Poás. Wir starteten unsere Wanderung um 1 Uhr nachts. Nach einem Kilometer war ich ehrlich gesagt schon ein bisschen angepisst, weil wir 2 Kilometer über eine extrem matschige Kuhweide im Dunkeln mussten und ich sofort nasse Füße hatte. Aber irgendwie war unser Hass auf die Kuhweide so lustig, dass es schon wieder extrem lustig war! Später durchliefen wir die verschiedensten Gebiete, Wiesen unter dem Sternenhimmel, einen Pfad im dichten Regenwald, einen Weg durch kniehohe Gewächse mit dicken Sukkulenten-Blättern und schließlich die Steinwüste. Es wurde langsam hell und roch immer mehr nach Schwefel. Außerdem wurde es immer windiger und es regnete. An einem steilen Stück bin ich ein bisschen abgestürzt, aber hab mich auf einer Plattform sofort wieder gefangen, daraufhin sind wir das Stück ohne Rucksäcke geklettert. Von einem Sonnenaufgang kann man nicht wirklich sprechen, es war alles neblig. Der Guide hat ungefähr zehn Mal gesagt, dass es nur noch 15 Minuten bis zum Krater sind. Und ja, irgendwann waren wir dann auch da, also man konnte es zumindest vermuten, denn gesehen hat man nichts 😥 Den Rückweg haben wir entsprechend schnell angetreten, denn es standen ja noch fünf Stunden bevor, diese Aussicht ist klasse, wenn man komplett nass und durchgefroren ist. Aber man trocknete dann doch irgendwann! Wir sind durch eine Steinwüste abgestiegen, in der die Steine zwar aussehen wie Steine, aber einfach weggebrochen sind, weil sie nur aus Lehm waren. Wir waren noch an beeindruckenden Wasserfällen und haben auch irgendwie die weiteren 2km Kuhweide hinter uns gebracht. 27km ohne Krater! Aber wir waren sehr stolz auf uns 😎 Es stinken immer noch Kleidungsstücke nach Schwefel...
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| Das Bild zeigt denke ich ganz gut WIE kalt es war :D |
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| Am Krater ohne Krater |
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| Die Lehmsteine |
Unter der Woche habe ich viele kleine Sachen unternommen. In der letzten Zeichenstunde haben wir danach gefeiert und mit den Mitbewohnerinnen Patacones gemacht. Richtig lecker mit Frijoles Molidos und Guacamole! Wir haben uns die Bäuche vollgeschlagen 🍌 Mit Cabio und Hannah war ich in einem fancy Café, das eine ganze Wand voller Gesellschaftsspiele hat, es ist ein Paradies! Wir haben "Escape" gespielt, sogar auf Spanisch, und mussten leider nach zwei Stunden aufgeben, weil wir die Rätsel wirklich nicht beenden konnten. Das war schon etwas deprimierend 😁 Hannahs Organisation hat ein internationales Abendessen veranstaltet, bei dem Freiwillige aus allen Ländern Fingerfood zubereitet haben. Ich habe Tiramisu aus Italien und Apfelstudel aus Österreich genießen können! Mit den Leuten aus der Freiwilligen-WG war ich in einer Rollschuhdisko, das ist ähnlich wie in einer Eishalle, aber mit den richtigen Rollschuhen war es dann doch etwas anders... Habe mich ein bisschen überschätzt und wollte so losfahren wie beim Inline skaten und hab mich erstmal hingelegt :D Es wurden an diesem Tag Spiele veranstaltet und beim Stoptanz war ich unaufmerksam und musste als Strafe mit Matthi in der Mitte der Halle etwas vortanzen (schön, zu tanzen, wenn man gerade mal gut fahren kann!). Es war schon sehr lustig!
Eines Nachts hatte ich eine fette Cucaracha in meinem Zimmer und habe sie in einem Glas eingesperrt, weil ich Angst hatte, dass ich die ganzen Eier im Teppich habe, wenn ich sie zerschlage. IHHH! Am nächsten Tag war ich alleine in einem Insektenmuseum und der Besitzer, der glaube ich nicht so viel Besuch bekommt, war total begeistert, einem deutschen Mädchen alles über Cucarachas zu erzählen. Sie gehören zu den Schaben und es gibt so viele verschiedene Schaben, das ist "unvorstellbar" und "ganz toll"! Es gibt im asiatischen Bereich viele Medikamente, für deren Herstellung Schaben gezüchtet werden. Außerdem werden Schaben Kameras auf den Rücken gespannt und die Nerven so angeregt, dass sie fernsteuerbar in von Erdbeben zerstörte Häuser gelenkt werden können. Oder in das Zimmer meines kleinen Bruders wenn ich zurück komme...😈
Ich war an der Uni in einem sehr beeindruckenden Theater, die Studenten haben kurze Stücke von ungefähr 5 Minuten hintereinander weg aufgeführt und man wurde in jedes wieder komplett hineingezogen. Sie haben ziemlich brutale, psychisch belastende Themen behandelt und ich war in einigen Situationen erstaunt, wie offen und realistisch die Schauspieler das darstellen konnten. Sexszenen, psychische Krankheiten auf der Bühne? Das ist echt nicht einfach.
Mit Lena hab ich ein richtiges Mädchenwochenende verbracht. Am Samstag waren wir shoppen und beim Friseur. Ups, danach hatte ich irgendwie keine Haare mehr, ich war echt erst ziemlich geschockt, aber eigentlich war es dann doch ganz cool.
Am Sonntag waren wir zu zweit entspannt in Jacó am Strand, denn die liebe Mariam hatte verschlafen. Diesmal gab es keine Krokodile und das Meer war richtig schön türkis! In einer Flussmündung konnte man wie in einem Pool baden. Wir haben bis auf die an diesem Tag echt irgendwann anstrengenden Anmachen vieler Männer einen superschönen sonnigen Chilltag gehabt!
Ein absoluter Höhepunkt war die Einladung von der Botschafterin. Ganz viele Freiwillige kamen in die deutsche Residenz und es gab eine wunderschöne Gartenfeier. Ich habe mich gefühlt wie in einem Film als ich die beleuchtete Einfahrt im Uber heraufgefahren bin (nachdem wir zu viert zusammengequetscht auf der Rückbank eines Ubers vom Guard am Eingangstor erwischt worden). Hannah und ich konnten unseren Augen nicht glauben, als wir das riesige Buffet mit Kartoffelsalat und Weihnachtssachen zum Nachtisch entdeckt haben! Die Botschafterin hat sich persönlich mit uns unterhalten und war super offen und freundlich. Es war ein super schöner Abend!
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| Hannah und ich vor dem Eingang, wo die Autos vorfahren |
So und nun zu meinem Weihnachtsfeeling! Jaaa, llegó la navidad, trotz der Sommertemperaturen 🎄
Die Häuschen sind übertrieben mit Lichterketten gestaltet, an den Autos sind teilweise rote Nasen und Geweihe angebracht, Burgerking hat einen schrecklichen riesigen Weihnachtsbaum mit Burgerkingkrone aufgestellt, auf dem Plaza de la Cultura stehen jetzt große Geschenke aus bunten Lichterschläuchen (Siehe Titelbild). Wir haben das Haus und mein Zimmer dekoriert, Carolina, Anas Tochter hat auch etwas an Deko aus der Schweiz mitgebracht, und Ana läuft hier in Weihnachtsschürzen rum. In der Freiwilligen WG haben wir mit bestimmt 20 Leuten ein großes Weihnachtsbacken veranstaltet, was mehr oder weniger funktioniert hat :D Vorher waren wir auf einem Weihnachtsmarkt der Humboldt-Schule und haben wie die Omis beim Kaffeetrinken und Plätzchenessen den Kindern beim Singen im Chor zugeguckt. Bei "Jingle Bell Rock" sind wir total abgegangen und haben uns wohl doch etwas von den Omis abgehoben!
Erfriert zu Hause in Deutschland nicht und ich wünsche euch schöne Weihnachten und nen guten Rutsch! 🎅🎉
My fourth month
By this time, 100 days in CR for me are over. I had made a "pact" with my organization EWN, that I will not give up during this time in any case. Ok, I have to admit, I really never thought about going home, but still I understand the "100 Days Pact", because after that time I really made friends and it feels kind of "home"... hard to explain, but maybe at the end of the blog you will understand!
The everyday life I have now made me thinking about whether I am really satisfied with everything as it is.
Matthi and Lena moved to a volunteer dorming room this month. In the beginning I felt kind of jealous, because now they belonged to the "cool ones". I noticed that I simply accepted some of Ana Ligia's habits, but wasn't happy with some of them. We kind of lived a bit past each other for a while, at least that's what I felt. So I asked her to talk a bit and we reflected our first time together. After a two and a half hours conversation I was quite satisfied. Since then we talk a lot at dinner and I am absolutely happy about living here! Ana's daughter Carolina, who lives in Switzerland, came to visit us. She brought chocolate, bread and Swiss cheese! Is it possible not beeing happy with that? Ana invited me to a family`s dinner, where we had "Olla de carne" (sin carne para mí) and I had a good time with Ana`s funny brother Oskar.
The work hadn`t changed a lot, I'm still waiting for more tasks and in a few lessons I'm really desperate doing nothing. I talked an other time to my mentor, the boss of the foundation. It looks like I will have some administrative tasks next year. I am looking forward to that, because I really like the foundation!
I have talked a lot with the orientation teacher, the "new" Karen, so I once again realized how the "muchachos" (young people) live outside the foundation. They work so hard, some of them live under for me unimaginable circumstances, pay off their uniforms for more than two years, sometimes eat only once a day properly (lunch at the Fundación)...what fascinates me most is the strength behind a girl who only finished primary school, lived on the street due to drug use and then motivated herself not to use any more drugs in order to apply for an apprendiceship at the Foundation. At the same time, she goes to school at night time to catch up on her graduation. All this, I didn't even notice at the beginning... I am happy that there are places like Samuel where young guys get a chance to study without paying.
On December 8th, the graduation, for which an enormous effort was made, of the generation 2017/2018 took place. Even the parking lots were repainted, whereby among other things Brandon had embellished his whole trousers with spots of paint. Seeing that, I just thought, oh yes, exactly the same would have happened to me! During our rehearsels we practiced full of motivation for our performance and became a really great group. When the day of the gig finally came, we all got ready together and put on matching clothes in black and wine red. I was very impressed by the moment when Daniel gave kind of a speech for us. Holding hands we stood in a circle to give each other strength. They even prayed together. I will never forget that! It was so emotional that some students cried a little.
Furthermore, we decorated the classrooms for Christmas, the "Conta class" performed plays on labour rights and in "Desarollo Personal" we worked on "Etiqueta y Protocolo", which means that we ate together and learned all kinds of table manners down to the last detail.
I have hardly made any more trips and spent a lot of time in San José, which shows that I feel at home in a certain way.
The first weekend of this month I was on a super exciting trip to the volcano Poás. We started our hike at 1 o'clock at night. After one kilometer, I have to admit that I was a bit pissed off, because we had to walk 2 kilometers over an extremely muddy cow pasture in the dark and I immediately had wet feet. But somehow our hatred for the cow pasture was so strong that it became pretty kind of funny! Later we went through various areas, meadows under the starry sky, a path in the dense rainforest, a path through knee-high plants with thick succulent leaves and finally the stone desert. It slowly became bright and smelled more and more like sulphur. In addition, there was more and more wind and it started to rain. I fell down a bit on a steep section, but immediately caught myself at a platform again. We learned that it is better to climb the section without backpacks. You can't really speak of a sunrise, because literally it was that foggy that day so you could barely see something. The guide mentioned about ten times that we would need only 15 minutes more to reach the crater. And yeah, finally we got there where supposed to be the crater. You could at least guess it😥 We started the way back fast, because there were still five hours to go on, prospecting that feels great if you are completely wet and frozen. But we did dry somehow! We descended through a stone desert, in which the stones appeared like stones, but simply broke away when you walked on them. We came to impressive waterfalls and somehow managed to finish the other 2km of cow pasture. 27km without seeing the crater! But we were very proud of ourselves 😎 There are still pieces of clothing left smelling like sulphur...
During the week I did a lot of small activities. After my last drawing lesson we made "Patacones" with the flatmates of my drawing-teacher Monica. With Frijoles Molidos and Guacamole they tasted unbelievably tasty! With Cabio and Hannah I went to a fancy café that has a whole wall full of board games, it is like paradise! We played "Escape", even dared to do it in Spanish, and unfortunately had to give up after two hours because we really couldn't finish the puzzles. That was a bit depressing... Hannah's organization organized an international dinner where volunteers from all over the world prepared finger food. I enjoyed Tiramisu from Italy and Apfelstudel from Austria! The guys from the volunteer flat share and I went to a roller-skating disco, it's similar to go ice-skating home in Germany, but with these type of roller-skates it was a bit different... I overestimated myself a little bit and wanted to go off like I did in inline skating...I layed down first :D Games to learn skating were organized on this day and when it came to the stop dance game I was inattentive, so I had to dance as a punishment with my friend Matthi in the middle of the hall in front of all the people (you surely can imagine that it is nice to dance, if you just learned to ride well!). It was very funny!
One night I had a fat "cucaracha" in my room and locked it in a glass at it would be a prison because I was afraid that I would have all the eggs in the carpet when I would smash it. IHHH! The next day I visited an insect museum and the owner, who I don't think gets that many visitors, was totally thrilled to tell a German girl all about Cucarachas. They belong to the cockroaches and there are so many different cockroaches, that's "unimaginable" and "really great"! In Asia there are many medicines for which cockroaches are bred. In addition, cameras are put on the cockroaches` backs and by stimulating their nerves they can be steered remotely into houses which are destroyed by earthquakes. I am rather thinking about steering it into my little brother's room when I return to Germany...
I went to a very impressive drama play prepared by some students from the university. They performed short plays of about 5 minutes in a row and you were completely drawn into each of them. They treated pretty brutal, psychologically stressful subjects and I was astonished how openly and realistically the actors could present it. Sex scenes, mental illnesses on stage? It's really not easy, I guess.
I spent a real girls` weekend with Lena. On Saturday we went shopping and to the hairdresser. Oops, after that I somehow didn't have any hair anymore, I was really shocked at first, but actually it was quite cool after all.
On Sunday we spent a relaxing day in Jacó on the beach. Our good friend Mariam had overslept so she couldn`t come with us. This time, there weren`t any crocodiles and the sea had a really nice turquoise colour! Where the river leads into the sea one can bathe like in a pool. Except for the really annoying chat-up lines turn of many men on this day we had a super nice sunny day!
An absolute highlight of this month was the invitation from the German ambassador. Many volunteers came to the German residence, where took place a wonderful garden party. I felt like I was in a movie when I drove up the illuminated driveway in our Uber (after we were caught by the guard at the entrance gate of the residence sitting squeezed together with four persons in the back seat of our Uber). Hannah and I couldn't believe our eyes when we discovered the huge buffet with potato salad and a lot of Christmas desserts! The ambassador spoke personally with us and turned out to be a super open and friendly woman. It was a super nice evening!
Well, finally I get to my Christmas feelings here in CR. Yeah, llegó la navidad, besides the summer temperatures!
The houses are exaggeratedly decorated with chains of lights, red noses and antlers are attached to the cars, Burgerking has put up a terrible, huge Christmas tree with a Burgerking crown, at "Plaza de la Cultura" there are installed big presents of colorful light tubes (check the cover picture), we decorated our house and my room, Carolina, Ana's daughter, also brought some decoration from Switzerland, and Ana walks around here at home in Christmas aprons. At the shared flat of the volunteers we organised a big Christmas baking party. It worked more or less to do christmas cookies with 20 people :D Before, we went to a Christmas market of the Humboldt School and watched children singing in the choir while drinking coffee and eating cookies like the grannies do. When "Jingle Bell Rock" turned on we totally went out of our way and probably stood out from the grannies!
Don't freeze to death at home in Germany, merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
By this time, 100 days in CR for me are over. I had made a "pact" with my organization EWN, that I will not give up during this time in any case. Ok, I have to admit, I really never thought about going home, but still I understand the "100 Days Pact", because after that time I really made friends and it feels kind of "home"... hard to explain, but maybe at the end of the blog you will understand!
The everyday life I have now made me thinking about whether I am really satisfied with everything as it is.
Matthi and Lena moved to a volunteer dorming room this month. In the beginning I felt kind of jealous, because now they belonged to the "cool ones". I noticed that I simply accepted some of Ana Ligia's habits, but wasn't happy with some of them. We kind of lived a bit past each other for a while, at least that's what I felt. So I asked her to talk a bit and we reflected our first time together. After a two and a half hours conversation I was quite satisfied. Since then we talk a lot at dinner and I am absolutely happy about living here! Ana's daughter Carolina, who lives in Switzerland, came to visit us. She brought chocolate, bread and Swiss cheese! Is it possible not beeing happy with that? Ana invited me to a family`s dinner, where we had "Olla de carne" (sin carne para mí) and I had a good time with Ana`s funny brother Oskar.
The work hadn`t changed a lot, I'm still waiting for more tasks and in a few lessons I'm really desperate doing nothing. I talked an other time to my mentor, the boss of the foundation. It looks like I will have some administrative tasks next year. I am looking forward to that, because I really like the foundation!
I have talked a lot with the orientation teacher, the "new" Karen, so I once again realized how the "muchachos" (young people) live outside the foundation. They work so hard, some of them live under for me unimaginable circumstances, pay off their uniforms for more than two years, sometimes eat only once a day properly (lunch at the Fundación)...what fascinates me most is the strength behind a girl who only finished primary school, lived on the street due to drug use and then motivated herself not to use any more drugs in order to apply for an apprendiceship at the Foundation. At the same time, she goes to school at night time to catch up on her graduation. All this, I didn't even notice at the beginning... I am happy that there are places like Samuel where young guys get a chance to study without paying.
On December 8th, the graduation, for which an enormous effort was made, of the generation 2017/2018 took place. Even the parking lots were repainted, whereby among other things Brandon had embellished his whole trousers with spots of paint. Seeing that, I just thought, oh yes, exactly the same would have happened to me! During our rehearsels we practiced full of motivation for our performance and became a really great group. When the day of the gig finally came, we all got ready together and put on matching clothes in black and wine red. I was very impressed by the moment when Daniel gave kind of a speech for us. Holding hands we stood in a circle to give each other strength. They even prayed together. I will never forget that! It was so emotional that some students cried a little.
Furthermore, we decorated the classrooms for Christmas, the "Conta class" performed plays on labour rights and in "Desarollo Personal" we worked on "Etiqueta y Protocolo", which means that we ate together and learned all kinds of table manners down to the last detail.
I have hardly made any more trips and spent a lot of time in San José, which shows that I feel at home in a certain way.
The first weekend of this month I was on a super exciting trip to the volcano Poás. We started our hike at 1 o'clock at night. After one kilometer, I have to admit that I was a bit pissed off, because we had to walk 2 kilometers over an extremely muddy cow pasture in the dark and I immediately had wet feet. But somehow our hatred for the cow pasture was so strong that it became pretty kind of funny! Later we went through various areas, meadows under the starry sky, a path in the dense rainforest, a path through knee-high plants with thick succulent leaves and finally the stone desert. It slowly became bright and smelled more and more like sulphur. In addition, there was more and more wind and it started to rain. I fell down a bit on a steep section, but immediately caught myself at a platform again. We learned that it is better to climb the section without backpacks. You can't really speak of a sunrise, because literally it was that foggy that day so you could barely see something. The guide mentioned about ten times that we would need only 15 minutes more to reach the crater. And yeah, finally we got there where supposed to be the crater. You could at least guess it😥 We started the way back fast, because there were still five hours to go on, prospecting that feels great if you are completely wet and frozen. But we did dry somehow! We descended through a stone desert, in which the stones appeared like stones, but simply broke away when you walked on them. We came to impressive waterfalls and somehow managed to finish the other 2km of cow pasture. 27km without seeing the crater! But we were very proud of ourselves 😎 There are still pieces of clothing left smelling like sulphur...
During the week I did a lot of small activities. After my last drawing lesson we made "Patacones" with the flatmates of my drawing-teacher Monica. With Frijoles Molidos and Guacamole they tasted unbelievably tasty! With Cabio and Hannah I went to a fancy café that has a whole wall full of board games, it is like paradise! We played "Escape", even dared to do it in Spanish, and unfortunately had to give up after two hours because we really couldn't finish the puzzles. That was a bit depressing... Hannah's organization organized an international dinner where volunteers from all over the world prepared finger food. I enjoyed Tiramisu from Italy and Apfelstudel from Austria! The guys from the volunteer flat share and I went to a roller-skating disco, it's similar to go ice-skating home in Germany, but with these type of roller-skates it was a bit different... I overestimated myself a little bit and wanted to go off like I did in inline skating...I layed down first :D Games to learn skating were organized on this day and when it came to the stop dance game I was inattentive, so I had to dance as a punishment with my friend Matthi in the middle of the hall in front of all the people (you surely can imagine that it is nice to dance, if you just learned to ride well!). It was very funny!
One night I had a fat "cucaracha" in my room and locked it in a glass at it would be a prison because I was afraid that I would have all the eggs in the carpet when I would smash it. IHHH! The next day I visited an insect museum and the owner, who I don't think gets that many visitors, was totally thrilled to tell a German girl all about Cucarachas. They belong to the cockroaches and there are so many different cockroaches, that's "unimaginable" and "really great"! In Asia there are many medicines for which cockroaches are bred. In addition, cameras are put on the cockroaches` backs and by stimulating their nerves they can be steered remotely into houses which are destroyed by earthquakes. I am rather thinking about steering it into my little brother's room when I return to Germany...
I went to a very impressive drama play prepared by some students from the university. They performed short plays of about 5 minutes in a row and you were completely drawn into each of them. They treated pretty brutal, psychologically stressful subjects and I was astonished how openly and realistically the actors could present it. Sex scenes, mental illnesses on stage? It's really not easy, I guess.
I spent a real girls` weekend with Lena. On Saturday we went shopping and to the hairdresser. Oops, after that I somehow didn't have any hair anymore, I was really shocked at first, but actually it was quite cool after all.
On Sunday we spent a relaxing day in Jacó on the beach. Our good friend Mariam had overslept so she couldn`t come with us. This time, there weren`t any crocodiles and the sea had a really nice turquoise colour! Where the river leads into the sea one can bathe like in a pool. Except for the really annoying chat-up lines turn of many men on this day we had a super nice sunny day!
An absolute highlight of this month was the invitation from the German ambassador. Many volunteers came to the German residence, where took place a wonderful garden party. I felt like I was in a movie when I drove up the illuminated driveway in our Uber (after we were caught by the guard at the entrance gate of the residence sitting squeezed together with four persons in the back seat of our Uber). Hannah and I couldn't believe our eyes when we discovered the huge buffet with potato salad and a lot of Christmas desserts! The ambassador spoke personally with us and turned out to be a super open and friendly woman. It was a super nice evening!
Well, finally I get to my Christmas feelings here in CR. Yeah, llegó la navidad, besides the summer temperatures!
The houses are exaggeratedly decorated with chains of lights, red noses and antlers are attached to the cars, Burgerking has put up a terrible, huge Christmas tree with a Burgerking crown, at "Plaza de la Cultura" there are installed big presents of colorful light tubes (check the cover picture), we decorated our house and my room, Carolina, Ana's daughter, also brought some decoration from Switzerland, and Ana walks around here at home in Christmas aprons. At the shared flat of the volunteers we organised a big Christmas baking party. It worked more or less to do christmas cookies with 20 people :D Before, we went to a Christmas market of the Humboldt School and watched children singing in the choir while drinking coffee and eating cookies like the grannies do. When "Jingle Bell Rock" turned on we totally went out of our way and probably stood out from the grannies!
Don't freeze to death at home in Germany, merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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