Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Ciao--for now
Ciao,
Anna
Monday, December 20, 2010
Below are some pictures from the last few days I was in Costa Rica. The kids are now a year older! How crazy fast the time has gone:)
Jonatán
José Daniel, José David
Carolina, yo
Priscila, Aitana, Fiorella, Valeria
María Paula, yo
Alejandro happens to be the son of Costa Rica's soccer coach:) he's a cutie for sure! (the kid I mean)
Graziella's husband barbequed for us one evening and Meredith and I showed the family how to make smores! And then we sange carols and played games by the fireplace:) A wonderful end to the year with them!
It was a great show and I hope she's decided to gift us with some of her work!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
a presentation about staying clean with their products. the kids liked it:)
doing some class work!
lunch at the site to celebrate Tifani's birthday
the cake!
the mom (Carmen), the birthday girl, and Allie in the back ground:) Carmen, after we sang happy birthday, wiped her daughter's face with the icing and they started chasing each other. it was quite entertaining:)
view from the work site in Moravia
we made popcorn in class to study how matter changes
passing out the popcorn...
eating popcorn! apparently, many of the kids have never had popcorn made over the stove...they were amazed at how good it was!
VBS with the Alabama work team, Llano Grande (the same place where the rose garden is!)
After the team week, I went home for my visa and for Krista's birthday! She LOVED her new tica doll:)

Thursday, October 28, 2010
School is moving along. We have 21 days left after today! It's hard to believe I'll be heading back to Texas after being back here only for 6 weeks, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Now that science fair is over, class is back to normal and we're flying through the last chapters, thank goodness!
Some friends of ours from language school have invited us over for a Halloween party with their family and others, so we're looking forward to it! Meredith and I are planning to dress up as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from the Dr. Seuss books:). Since Costa Rica no longer recognizes or celebrates Halloween any more, the school is decorating for Christmas. While I understand the reasons for the church here to say Halloween is the devil's holiday, or something like that, I still find it ironic since the same church promoted the idea of it all hundreds of years ago.
The bible study is going well so far from what I've heard, and today will be my first day to be part of it, so I'm excited about that. Thankfully, we have 5 girls who have been coming, so that is an answered prayer for sure! Not what exams are over (for the time being) we may even have 1 or 2 more, which would be wonderful!
Saturday, October 9, 2010


Monday, October 4, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The groups all did well, considering English is not their native language:). Some words we have to let them say the "tico" way, but that's ok as long as they know what we mean!