It’s been a while since I’ve updated this… as usual, life
has gotten in the way of my sitting down and summarizing what’s been going
on. But as our program is winding down
(it’s Sunday; the program ends on Thursday!), I’m finding that without homework
I have more time than I know what to do with, so updating the blog is something
to do!
I’m having very mixed feelings about the program
ending. The good thing is that it ending
doesn’t actually mean that I’m leaving Monteverde—Molly and I are staying for another
month and a half for an internship. We
get to live up the mountain in Monteverde proper (in our own house!) instead of
in Santa Elena, where we’ve been living all semester. We’ll be working with our teacher Kate
disseminating a sociological survey about women’s birth experiences here in the
Monteverde region. And living next door
to Kate and her husband and their four month old baby! We’re very excited. And moving in next week!
After everything that happened with Pati, it was tough to
stay focused and motivated. I had the
incredible and humbling privilege of being able to go home for a long weekend and got the TLC family time that I
needed. After that it was much easier to
rally and make it through the rest of the semester. I just handed in my last final paper, have a
final presentation on Monday, and then it’s off to the hot springs for a night
with the whole group!! Then one final
night together (at the same cabins where we stayed our first night in
Monteverde—which still feels like yesterday) and the first people start
leaving! It’s very weird that we won’t
all be together anymore, after having spent so much time together for three
months.
We had our homestay fiesta on Saturday. We showed a video that we had made of all of
our photos, with some of Pati’s songs as the background music (as well as a
song that Emily, Molly and I recorded and the Indigo Girls song “Closer to
Fine,” which we sang with Pati)—look for it on facebook soon (we hope)!
I guess that’s the update for now. I’ll try to write more about how the
internship is going—and perhaps post pictures of our house and the cutie baby
and the rest of our adventures here!
El grupo (más Mika y Adrienne)!
Love, abrazos, y besos,
Emma
