Update from Costa Rica

Well it is about time I update my life here in CR. For those of you who may not have known I was out of the program for a month due to a family situation and returned to CR on Febuary 1! Since then time has been flying by and we have been busier than ever! The day after I returned we left for Panama (the country) for about a week to have a break and work at a Word of Life camp. It turned out to be a very long bus ride but a very relaxing week for all of us! Panama is a beautiful country and I enjoyed being there alot!! The weather was great and the everything was so much cheaper than the states! It was great! We toured one day and went to see the Panama Canal. It has been difficult and alittle discouraging trying to get back into the groove of spanish considering I missed 60 something hours while I was gone but I am doing better!! I have to have patience and I have amazing very supportive teachers! I may not come away from this program fluent but I will have learned alot and it has been a life changing expirience! I have not started the hair cutting program yet but plan to within the next week or two. I am excited about that. A praise update is that the families that lived in "the whole" have been moved out into government built housing or property given to them by the government! The government homes are much nicer but some of the families have to rebuild their tin house's on property. We helped move some of the families out last Saterday! This move is great because they are out of the "whole" and onto better land Lord willing! It is a good start for their families. My boyfriend Sam came down to spend 5 days with me last week, he left Tuesday and I miss him. We had a really good time though! Below are some new pictures up of Panama, my time with Sam and misc. I will try and get some new pictures of the "whole" and the new housing!! Thank you for your prayers and support and I will try and begin updating this regularly! I do have a prayer request and that is I still need $4000 dollars in my account for this program. The program ends in June! So keep that in your prayers please! God bless :-)