guilty pleasures

Lately I have become more and more obcessed with a certain kind of cookie found here in CR: YEMAS.
For all of you Spanish speakers, you know that a "yema" is the yolk of an egg (and if you did not know that, now you do!). These cookies hardly look like that, or taste like that! Between two plain sugar cookies is a delicious dolop of guava jam....basically it is like the vanilla and fruit version of an oreo! I love it! I have already eaten an entire package this week. And they are even more delicious when paired with a cup of coffee. Yemas...yum!

Today I met the new chaperones who will be part of the team this year. We talked more in depth about the job, two of them are native Spanish speakers and one is from my UD group last year. She was kind enough to bring me a few things from the USA, among them two of my favorite magazines! One of my guiltiest pleasures is reading fashion magazines, namely InStyle and Marie Claire (I am not really a Cosmo girl, much to my Mom's relief I am sure haha!). I am thrilled to have the most recent copies of these two mags, which I will pour over probably until I return to the USA and get myself the newest issue...! Hmm now I can hear Madonna's "Vogue" playing as backround music in my head...

This time last year I was training the new chaperones...they are doing much the same program, getting to know each campus and the surrounding restaurants and tours, seeing meeting points and neighborhoods where we have homestay families. Thier leader is a chaperone who has been with CPI since December but who I have never met before. But based on my first impression I think we will get along very well! My fisrt impressions are not usually wrong...! I say not usually but I can hardly say never.

Did I mention that this week I am in a hotel with my group? All this talk of guilty pleasures has inspired me to go and take a dip in the pool this afternoon when we get back, something I haven't done yet...

PURA VIDA!