Well I mentioned in my last post that I was doing a detox. I have to admit that I did not make it through the first day...so I am starting over today after having 3 glasses of lemon water this morning.
Yesterday was tough...I woke up and showered and cleaned the shared kitchen, then got ready for work and had some water. I walked and met my group and thier guide for the day in Heredia, and made some anxious phone calls after a student showed up at CPI instead of at the meeting point. He was just following his Mama Tica, who did not double check her sheet. AH! So the group got going late and then I headed back to CPI. By mid-morning I had a headache which only continued through the rest of the day, and I felt like my eyes could not open...! I blame lack of coffee. Who knew I was so hooked? I was so low energy and my Spanish kept coming out wrong.
During the day I heard a few opinions from co-workers...that it is not healthy to do a detox, that I should not try to lose weight (which is not the point, the point is to get toxins and bad stuff out of your system), that I can't attend to my group well, that if you don't start your metabolism by eating something that it won't work well....
Anyway, at 3pm when my compañera brought in some extra pizza, I could not resist and I caved. I ate 3 pieces and then 4 pieces of foccacia bread. And I went out to eat with the professor from my group last night! So today is round two...!
I have to tell you a little about my group that I have for the next 4 weeks.
Four seasons ago when I first started I had this group for the first time (University of Northern Alabama) and they loved it here. It was a wonderful group and they have been coming every year for the last four years. This is the third time that I have been the CPI chaperone for this group, and I know the professor and her daughters, and I have even met some students who have done the trip twice because they enjoyed it so much! This is the first year that they are staying for 4 weeks instead of 3 weeks, and it turns out that this is actualy my last group! The program wraps up at the end of July, and I drop them off at the airport and start preparing for my own journey back to the USA.
So far so good, I see a few shy personalities and some more loud ones, and even a girl who reminds me of myself when I first came to CR (is it bad that I find her a little annoying??) so we will see how the dynamic of this group develops over the next few weeks.
Funny story about last night! I stopped by the apartment in the afternoon to drop something off, and noticed a hummingbird stuck inside the entry way...there is a large glass window over the gated doorway, and it seemed like the bird had flown in and could not make his way out! He was still there when I got home after 6pm, frantically flapping and throwing himself against the window thinking he could escape. With a broom we got him down from the window area, but he proceeded to fly up into the little open air hallway between apartments and we watched him buzzing around, exhausted. He finally flew into the open door of the chaperone apartment and we tried to catch him with a pot but he continued to evade us...until he landed behind the fridge in total exhaustion, at which point we scooped him up in a dustbin and got him outside and into the open air through our porch door...watch out for those hummingbirds! What an adevnture.
I am excited for a free weekend...I want to see E and go to the beach! Maybe it will happen.
Pura Vida
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