Imagine

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.  - Henry David Thoreau

 This past week in my Spanish class we have been talking a lot about imagining things for your life in order for them to happen. For example, my teacher had 2 children when she was pretty young. For the first few years, things were really tough for her. She lived in a small apartment for a while and said she would always dream of a different house, not necessarily big, but enough space to be filled with close friends enjoying each others company. This past Friday she invited a few of us into her home to make dinner and say goodbye to one of her students. We were all sitting in her kitchen helping cook, playing games, eating, drinking and talking and she told me how us being there was what she had wished for for so long. It felt so nice to be a part of someones dreams and her positive attitude made me further realize that if you dream something, one day you can have it.
Also, while at her house, a few of us were sitting on a small landing about 1 story above the ground and felt the whole thing shake for almost a minute. The third earthquake Ive felt since I have been here! I thought it was cool, it was a strange feeling; I really felt alive, for the first time, like I was actually physically apart of this world. They do say you can find beauty in disaster.
I am trying to sum up my past week and realize that this is becoming disorganized, but then again so is my life. Saturday morning we woke up at 7 am and Laura (my roommate from Germany) was like.. ok lets go to the beach!.. I wanted to sleep later but I am glad she made me get up! We got to Jacó (a beach town on the Pacific coast about 2 hours from San Jose) in the late afternoon and got to our hostel. I dont know if I could even call it a hostel though. It was a house about 2 blocks from the beach owned by a woman from Hungary. Most of the people staying there were from Eastern Europe, picture people in their 30s walking around in their underwear, smelling a little of BO and cooking strange food and sleeping where they fell, couches, floor, hammocks... That night we went out to a bar in the town, and then when that bar closed we went to another after hours bar and danced and eventually went home a little after the sun had come up. The next day we lied on the beach and all got a little too much sun but it was beautiful and relaxing after a long night. Definitely an interesting weekend!