Craziness in the past month!

Alright, so it's been a while since I wrote...I've been super busy! In the past month I have finished my first two classes and all the spanish work that went along with them! This also included an INCREDIBLE group presentation with a game show format on Globalization.....it was either creative and entertaining or just plain ridiculous and stupid! Oh...and we also visited a sustainable organic farm! The guy would just grab some random fruit or vegetable or thing that I have never seen before off of a plant, a tree, or the ground, and hand it to me or my friends to try and eat. Most of the stuff was actually pretty good! Best tomatoes ever! I took a weekend trip with 7 of my friends to Volcano Arenal! We swam in hot springs, zip-lined through the rain forest, and chilled in our rocking chairs on our porch of our hotel rooms while looking at the steaming volcano. The following week, we celebrated my friend, Miranda's, birthday! On her birthday a few of us went to her house and had snacks/cake with her and her host family there! P.S. Her mom made popcorn and this was the first time that I had had popcorn since arriving here....I FLIPPED OUT (because I'm far too addicted and was going through withdrawals). A couple days later we went out to dinner at this cool place we had wanted to go to all semester and then went to a dance place called Castro's for the remainder of the evening. Last week a bunch of LASP students hung out at LASP one evening to watch the new episodes of the Office that we have missed since being in CR. I have only seen a few random episodes here and there, but after watching the 1st 5 of season 6, I want to watch the rest of the season now! This event also included MORE popcorn and pizza! I just got home from fall break yesterday. :( 10 friends and I went to Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica for 4 1/2 days! I got really lucky and found this incredible place online, so we stayed in a Jungle Villa. Essentially the 11 of us had this whole house and pools ALL to ourselves. We went to the beach a couple days too, but spent most of our time hanging around our incredible place! I also got to cook again, which I love and haven't gotten to do in FOREVER! It was a great time of rest and relaxation! Now, we are all splitting up into our concentrations (Latin American Studies, Business, or Advanced Language & Literature = ME) for the remainder of the semester. I will be leaving this Friday to live in Grecia, CR for almost 4 weeks! I'm gonna be reading a ton of literature and doing assignments with them, taking more advanced spanish classes 2 times a week, and doing some sort of "community involvement" job. (I'll post it up when I know what I'm gonna be doing). So, I'm using this week to enjoy time with my host family and with my LASP friends who I won't see now for a month :( Not sure how much I'll be able to post during the next 4 weeks, but I'll do my best!