Oct.14 Epifania language school

I finished my second day of Spanish language classes today in San Pedro, a suburb of San Jose. I’m taking two classes in the morning, a total of four hours, and it leaves me free afternoons and evenings. It is giving me a chance to catch up on my writing, which I never had time for on my recent stay in the US.

Having completed my first year in Costa Rica, I feel I am deep into my new life and that it is going well. While I felt some anxiety during my stay in the U.S., it was a feeling that I don’t have here now, at my home-stay in San Pedro, even though I am in totally new surroundings in an unfamiliar neighborhood with no one that I have known for more than three days.

The classes have been good, and I’m making rapid progress with no more than one or two other classmates at a time. The first day, my classmate, Woody, a Canadian, started talking about the Law of Attraction, or Ley de Attracion, part of The Secret or El Secreto, and related it to how he had come to move down to Costa Rica. The teacher and school founder, Gisella, was animated by this discussion as well and I was also able to relate how I felt that moving to Nosara was no accident. I thought that conversation, in Spanish, was very encouraging for my first day.