College and Talamanca

Since Ive been living here in Progreso Ive also had to apply to college. It´s been an interesting experience writing my essays while sitting on a hammock looking out into the mountain and the Pacific Ocean, on a bus ride, in front of a super market, under a tree, and then finally into a computer to the college. I thought how it was funny that one morning I found my essay with bat poop on top it...that´s just assurance that the college will believe I´m living in a mountain. Today I finally finished everything with that and it feels great.
Right now Mateen and I have been in the internet cafe laughing like crazy at Chuck Noris jokes and sending each other messages on facebook and being 5 feet from each other...it´s a nice escape. Were waiting for the 4 o´clock bus that goes to Zancudo beach for us to find out about hotels and things for when Mateen´s family arrives. Tomorrow we take a morning bus to San Jose and arrive there in the late afternoon. Stay there a few days, and then go to Talamanca which is a Bri-Bri Indigenous Reserve in the south-eastern part of Costa Rica. We arrive, take another bus, take a boat upstream on a kilometer wide river, then another bus until we arrive at the Bahaí Center and then walk to the house we´ll be staying in. That was about the longest run-on sentence ever. We will be catching the end of a teaching campaign and then we´ll have a 3 day junior youth campaign with about 50 participants that I had organized with 3 Bri Bri youth a few weeks ago.
The 14 of December we go back to San Jose to pick up a wonderful girl named Parisa that will help us Talamanca, so we´ll return to Talamanca.
We leave the 19th and then the 21st my mom and my dad will arrive to come and visit me and the community!! I´m extremely excited for this.
The 26-28 we will all attend the Baha´i Summer School. the 29th go to Panama on bus to visit some friends we have there.
The 31st arrive at Conte around noon and then pack up my mom´s, dad´s and parisa´s things in the sacks that Bernardo´s horse will be carrying and arrive at Progreso just in time to celebrate New Years with Don Jesus and Delsa´s family who invited us to celebrate with them, so they´re killing some of their pigs, picking yuca, and preparing many other things and then we´ll all watch the fireworks that they shoot in Panama and then Costa Rica an hour later(because of the time difference).

Basically what I´m trying to say is...wow!!! am I excited or what!

MUCH LOVE AND PEACE


``In this glorious Day whatsoever can purge you from defilement and ensure your peace and tranquility, that indeed is the straight Path, the Path that leadeth unto Me. To be purged from difilement is to cleansed of all which is injurious to man and detracteth from his high station.´´

-Baháulláh