Hope all of you are staying warm in the nasty Iowa weather! I've heard it has been in the negatives! It is not as warm as I thought it would be here yet, but my tico mother (tico is the word for native Costa Ricans) said January is the transition month between their "winter" and summer, so it will start getting really warm in February and March. Although my suitcase barely made the weight limit in the airport, I don't think I packed as many clothes as I thought I did! Classes started on Tuesday and are going well so far! (For those of you who don't know, all of my classes are in Spanish.) My Latin American Literature teacher is from Cuba. She is very nice, expressive, and enunciates each word so she is
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