So we are at the new school, St. Cecilia’s, signing up the boys. The clerk asks me what I do for a living ("Qué es sue profesión?") I tell her I am a housewife because I can’t say sand sculpturess in Spanish. She types in "HOG" which is short for hogar which means home, hearth. Hal and I chuckle and I explain that "HOG" en los Estados Unidos es lo mismo de cerdo = means pig. She looks mortified and then chuckles. And then very helpfully erases the "G". So now my . . . → Read More About My Brilliant Career in Español
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When I can’t, it wrecks my whole night. And his. Like last night. . . . → Read More About I Can Hear You Breathe. This from Dave Kopel at The Volokh Conspiracy that I stumbled across roaming the blogosphere: Iranian teenager to be executed for self-defense against a rapist. Amnesty International reports this case from Iran: On 3 January [2006], 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by a criminal court, after she reportedly admitted stabbing to death . . . → Read More About Rethinking my position on bombing Iran. 30 March 2006
 Comments are closed  Bush, Culture Shock, God, what a world!, Political Blah-Blah, Teenagers, WarRumor has it, we’ve retired. "Retiring" means choosing to quit your job and moving to another country… I guess we sorta did that. But it implies doing that without the need to ever work again. Uh, we didn’t do that. We aren’t retirees, we are runner-away-ees. Just so nobody thinks we are down here living the life of Donald Trump. Think of us like you would Enron employees: we came to work one day, the door was locked and the pension fund . . . → Read More About My Brilliant Career When you visit Costa Rica, be sure to bring your wallet. And a debit card. God made Costa Rica breathtaking; she didn't make it free. And before you return home to report on your visit, arm yourself with every synonym for fabulous, breathtaking, amazing, magical, unbelievable and incredible you can find. You'll need them. Hal's mom, Joni, and his Aunt Sally have been here for a week. [FLICKR PHOTOS] We visited every tourist destination within an hour's . . . → Read More About Weekend of Ooohs and Awes 21 March 2006
One comment - (Comments are closed) CR: Accommodations, CR: Attractions, CR: Bamboo Farm, CR: Wildlife, Farmer's Market, MOM, Travel Tips, VolcanosMain Entry: ad•ven•ture Function: noun Etymology: Middle English aventure, from Old French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin adventura, from Latin adventus, past participle of advenire to arrive, from ad- + venire to come 1 a : an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks b : the encountering of risks 2 : an exciting or remarkable experience 3 : an enterprise involving financial risk Around the middle of last December, after a decidedly hellacious fall and early winter and an end to income, this family opted for a dose of . . . → Read More About Too Long At The Fair . . . → Read More About Costa Rica’s new tax bill . . . → Read More About Things to love about Costa Rica Remember what I said a coupla days ago about how doing something right included moving to Costa Rica? Scratch that. I moved here just in time to discover Costa Rica planning to tax the bejesus out of foreign residents (is "foreign residents" an oxymoron?) Read the cheery news here*. AM Costa Rica has a contributor who is actually reading the new 400+ page tax overhaul… the news is not good for newbies. We recently applied for residency . . . → Read More About “Ack,” Said the Golden Goose… We had high hopes. High in the sky apple pie hopes. Just before leaving Key West, we’d searched the net and found a Spanish language school, Amistad Instutitue, that uses the immersion technique to teach Spanish, along with a thousand other techniques. There are at least one million of these schools in Costa Rica. The one we chose came highly recommended by our Costa Rica landlord as well as a fellow tenant on the finca, and is right in our village. So close, in fact, we could have walked there. We did not . . . → Read More About Spanish Language Immersion Classes |
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