{"id":1622,"date":"2023-06-04T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:17:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T08:17:45","slug":"first-day-spanish-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/first-day-spanish-school\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Spanish School – Heredia, Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Waking up early for the first day of Spanish School<\/strong> at\u00a0Intercultra<\/a> I make myself semi presentable and meet Daniel in the kitchen for breakfast. We then begin our ascend uphill for a twenty minute walk alongside our host mother and her granddaughter. We take\u00a0note of the streets, walking back by ourselves tonight means\u00a0needing to remember the way.<\/p>\n

\"Studing<\/p>\n

Our school is on the corner, an orange-ish colour plastered building. Straight away\u00a0we are sent into reception. Time to do a quick test of our Spanish skills.<\/strong>\u00a0In 10 seconds it is over. Not knowing the answer to anything made answering the questions easy. I ended up being put in a beginners class. No surprises there. Since everyone is in a similar position in an unfamiliar setting its quite easy to talk to a met new people.<\/p>\n

\"Studing<\/p>\n

\"Studing<\/p>\n

Soon enough school for the day is over. Everyone staying downhill all walk back together. Though, not before an all-important detour to the amazing Walmart<\/strong>. Being from little ol\u2019 New Zealand Walmart is something I\u2019ve only seen on tv and oh boy did it live up to the hype. I\u2019m not sure whether the prices were amazing because it was Walmart or simply because I am used to overpriced everything from kiwi land, but we were in heaven. Unfortunately, having spent my day eating beans and rice my mouth\u00a0wasn\u2019t prepared for any further exploring and was looking for something homely. Then I spot the amazing\u00a0Pringles.<\/strong> \u00a0I didn\u2019t know it, but from that moment they\u00a0would become a familiar theme throughout Costa Rica<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"Studing\"Studing\n

Observations:<\/em><\/h2>\n-Men here like to wolf whistle<\/em>\n\n-There are cool gym equipment here in the parks which is a really awesome idea<\/em>\n\n-Surprisingly bathrooms don’t smell even though the toilet paper goes in a rubbish bin<\/em>\n\n\"Studing\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waking up early for the first day of Spanish School at\u00a0Intercultra I make myself semi presentable and meet Daniel in the kitchen for breakfast. We then begin our ascend uphill for a twenty minute walk alongside our host mother and her granddaughter. We take\u00a0note of the streets, walking back by ourselves tonight means\u00a0needing to remember […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,156,42],"tags":[67,74],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-topic-central-america","category-working-studying-abroad","tag-heredia","tag-san-jose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}