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| The Settlers of Catan board |
1) Silvie and Diego have this awesome board game called
The Settlers of Catan, and they invited me over to play with them and Caroline and Ero. Basically, it’s a resource-based game on a
map where you try to build the biggest empire.
It’s so addictive we played for several hours, until well after our usual
bedtimes!
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| these little guys are pure gold from thousands of years ago |
2) Silvie found an event organized by a San José-based
cultural organization for which most of San José’s museums were open all
evening for free, with buses connecting all the museums and leaving at frequent
intervals. Although the traffic was
horrible, so we got there late, Caroline and Ero and I enjoyed seeing the Museum
of Pre-Columbian Gold and the Museum of Modern Art and Design. Well, sort of – to me, modern art mostly
reminds me of something a four-year-old could have done or at least come up with. See below.
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| Me: Hey Caroline, what's this mean? Caroline: "This is not corn." Me: Gosh I love modern art... |
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3) Since we got here, Caroline and I have wanted to cook
dinner for both our host families, partly as a way to express our appreciation,
partly to introduce them to some American food they’ve never had before, and
partly as an excuse to all have a party together! So a couple Sundays ago, as soon as church
was over, we started buying and chopping and cooking vegetarian chili and had
us a good ole time!
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| Our wonderful host families! |
4) This spring, the Central American Games (think Olympics
for Central America) just happened to be held in San José! So one Friday, Caroline and her classmate
Emma and I went into town to see them!
We watched volleyball, ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant (I know you’re
probably thinking “isn’t that what you eat every day?”, but no it’s not and we
were SO excited to have Mexican food for a change!), walked along the main
street in San José, had coffee and dessert, and finally made our way to the
National Stadium for the men’s fútbol finals between Costa Rica and
Honduras! The stadium was built a
couple years ago by the Chinese as a goodwill gesture and is now the nicest
stadium in Central America! We were
thinking it would be nuts going to a soccer game down here, but the stadium
was only half full and the fans didn’t seem that into it, with two exceptions:
1) the man in front of us who kept yelling “ESPINACAS!,” apparently referencing
Popeye and urging the team to get extra strength by eating more spinach, and 2)
the crowd-energizing dude banging on a drum and starting cheers. I’d say the highlight of the whole day was
when Emma asked if she could have a turn with the drum and got the whole fan section
cheering and laughing!
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| MEXICAN FOOD |
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| Estadio Nacional |
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