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Okay, so I was feeling bad earlier and was on the verge of writing an entry, but then I decided to answer my email first. And I am so glad I did. Telling people back home about Costa Rica means that I have to think about the positive things first, and the negative parts never (or very little). And it made me feel so much better to think like that.
So, today was the first day I had Religion class! It actually made me kind of frusterated and annoyed because for a while the teacher was talking about how lesbians shouldn't have the right to adopt (that's a legal issue in the Costa Rican Supreme Court right now) and he was being really dismissive and derisive and I kind of wanted to tell him that he was full of shit. But I didn't, because I'm a good little exchange student and good little exchange students accept the host culture and learn from it. Actually, it's probably a good learning experience for me to be in a place where people's opinions are so drastically different from where I've lived all my life. It just annoys me sometimes. Like when the guys in my class use "gay" (well, "playo") interchangably with stupid. I know people do that in the US too, but honestly it annoyed me just as much then.
So anyways, wasn't I focusing on the positive things? Oh yeah, in Religion class Yarenis (who is cool and should visit so you can all meet her) actually copied what the teacher dictated from me! This is a huge step up from when I spent every class period leaning of my classmates' shoulders trying to figure out what the teacher just said. And it makes me happy! It also makes me think I'm fluent, which is bad because I'm really not and I still should be making an effort to learn, just like when I first came.
I've spent way too much time on the computer today and I feel bad about that, so I'm going now. This whole entry was mostly just so I can vent in English (my diary's in Spanish) and sort out what kind of mood I'm actually in. So don't feel you have to comment if you don't want to.
So, today was the first day I had Religion class! It actually made me kind of frusterated and annoyed because for a while the teacher was talking about how lesbians shouldn't have the right to adopt (that's a legal issue in the Costa Rican Supreme Court right now) and he was being really dismissive and derisive and I kind of wanted to tell him that he was full of shit. But I didn't, because I'm a good little exchange student and good little exchange students accept the host culture and learn from it. Actually, it's probably a good learning experience for me to be in a place where people's opinions are so drastically different from where I've lived all my life. It just annoys me sometimes. Like when the guys in my class use "gay" (well, "playo") interchangably with stupid. I know people do that in the US too, but honestly it annoyed me just as much then.
So anyways, wasn't I focusing on the positive things? Oh yeah, in Religion class Yarenis (who is cool and should visit so you can all meet her) actually copied what the teacher dictated from me! This is a huge step up from when I spent every class period leaning of my classmates' shoulders trying to figure out what the teacher just said. And it makes me happy! It also makes me think I'm fluent, which is bad because I'm really not and I still should be making an effort to learn, just like when I first came.
I've spent way too much time on the computer today and I feel bad about that, so I'm going now. This whole entry was mostly just so I can vent in English (my diary's in Spanish) and sort out what kind of mood I'm actually in. So don't feel you have to comment if you don't want to.