First Day of Classes!

We had our first set of classes today. For Bible we had a guest speaker; he's a missionary from Pennsylvania. We're studying the book of James this week. -Oh! Also.. One of our team's goals this year is to read the whole Bible, so we're reading about 4 chapters a day. I'm pumped. - Okay so back to school... we had spanish today also. Spanish was actually really good because I am in the beginner's class... so I don't feel too behind. We're learned some greetings and the alphabet today. I'm excited to finally have homework! Who ever would've thought Grace Cowart would be saying those words! 


Okay so I've tried a couple of times to post videos... but I haven't figured out how, so I will go ahead and try to summarize the past couple of days. 


Basically, the entire group of 29 of us (plus our leaders) split up into groups of about 4 and divide among churches in San Jose and Guadalupe. Saturday night one of the staff members at the Villa named Andrea, my fellow GAPers Derek, Emily, Will and I took two bus rides to this small church in a warehouse type place in San Jose. We got out there a little early, so we had to wait outside in the dark rain, but it was cool because we got to see how everything was set up.... oh the benefit of being ON TIME to things:)! haha... by the way... I have firmly established my reputation of being tardy here, but I really am getting better. The youth group was awesome. Again, the people there were super friendly, and although the only words I really ever understood were hello, how are you and goodbye, I could still tell that I am going to get really close to some of these people. (once we pass this pretty ridiculously big barrier called communication) They sang a couple of American (in Spanish) worship songs, so I was not completely lost. It's comforting knowing that even though you don't speak the same language, you are talking to the same God. The rest of the time was filled with a sermon and games. One of the girls in our group got sick, so we left a little early with one of Andrea's (our group leader) friends. I finally got a taste of real Costa Rican driving!... and I am hoping I will not have to experience too much more of that! I prefer the buses :)


The next morning we went to the same church. It was a little over 3 hours, definitely increasing my appreciation for church back home. The sermon was long, but I guess it really wasn't too bad all in all because we got to sing a lot. There was definitely a big drop of excitement level between youth group and sunday morning worship. But that's okay... I'm feeling some change coming! 


Okay we're about to eat, but I am going to try to upload some pictures soon. I'm a little technologically challenged with this blog thing, but I'm getting better. I hope all of you guys are doing well. Pray for my spanish! pleaseeeeeeeeeeee! Hasta la vista!