Wet Tents and Lack of Pants: Our Time at the Spanish School

Ship: Reggie
Date: 16.01.2025
Position: In the rain

We are currently at a language school in Coronado, Costa Rica, where we spend about three hours each day learning Spanish.

Before school, we tried camping, but we’re terrible at setting up tents and everything got wet. We ended up sleeping on air mattresses in the classrooms. Who knew it would be colder than expected?

The school is in the mountains and even though we packed warm clothes, we totally underestimated the cold.

To top it off, we had to send all our clothes for washing the day before yesterday. That’s very cool because we hadn’t washed any clothes since we were on the ship. But personally, I only brought one pair of long pants with me and they’re in the washing machine, so I’m left with no pants! Now I’m rocking either pajama bottoms or a borrowed pair of jogging pants.

Sonja decided to bring her jeans to Costa Rica, but they ripped right at the back while she was in the bathroom! Now she needs to wear a pair of linen pants that look like they survived a battle with a rust monster, all thanks to our washing machine.

Unfortunately, I think I’ll have to go shopping after the trip to buy new clothes because mine are all full of rust too. Sorry, Mom and Dad.

Felipa wrote one daily report about the difference between school on board and at home. While my friends at home learn politics, math, and science six hours a day, we only learn Spanish here. And there’s another cool thing about lessons here: We have a food and cooking class!

We already did a fruit tasting and cooked a traditional banana-petit meal. I think it’s a really cool way to get to know the culture.

Our Spanish class is a four-day course. On the first day, we were divided into six different groups and sent to separate rooms.

Now we can count to 100, describe people and introduce ourselves and our families. We’ve learned all this through a lot of games, like Guess Who? and Memory.

It’s interesting how quickly you can learn a new language. Until four days ago, I couldn’t say much more than “Gracias” and “uno, dos, tres.” It is particularly helpful to already speak French because the languages are very similar.

At our language school, we also have some free time, which is quite entertaining!

We get to play table tennis, explore the city and even call home with our phones. It’s interesting to see how much our interactions change when we have our phones available all the time. I’m glad we don’t have them for the entire trip, but it’s really nice to be able to call home and chat with friends.

The only tricky part is the seven-hour time difference, which makes coordinating calls a bit of a challenge!

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