Monday, September 15, 2008

I´m Here

Hey everybody.. Greetings from Costa Rica.. :)
Well I´m Finally here.. I can´t believe it.. Time flew by so quick.. This has been a trip that i have been planning since January.. When I first start on choose I place to go.. I was thinking of going to Amstrdam.. but that didn´t work out the way I wanted it to.. God had a different destination for me.. and it turn out to be here..
I´ve been excited to so this type of missionary work.. But to be honest I was sad to leave home.. I didn´t get emotional about it until my last week of being home.. I was crying all day my last Sunday but I manage to get by the whole week.. Probably until Saturday the day I left.. In my mind I was like OMG I can´t believe today is the day.. It was sad to say bye to my mom, dad, Danny, my brother, and friends that came by to the house before I left and to the once that dropped me off.. :(.. But I know that this is something I need to do for myself and my Lord.. and I feel really good about this..
Well just to kind of give u an idea of what its like here.. because I haven´t up loaded my pictures yet but i will soon put some, i´ll kind of tell you alittle bit until I put pictures..
But here everything is so green and beautiful.. and it rains alot.. which I love because I love the rain.. and once you get here you can already feel the culture of Costa Rica..
Before I got here.. I ended up meet a girl on the plane name Sarah.. and it turn out that she was going to the same DTS I was so that was pretty cool because we were helping each other out with our luggages and paper worker and all that immigration stuff.. We both didn´t have to show up alone to the base..
Well like I said it rains alot here.. But for some reason yesterday after they pick us up it poured like never before they said.. everything was flooded.. the road thats we had to go through were not roads anymore they all in pieces.. so that was pretty crazy.. When we got to the base I met everybody there.. and it trun out that Sarah and myself were that last ones to arrive.. So felt a little weird cause everybody have known each other.. But everybody here are great people.. I just have to take time to get to know them in a personal way.. Which won´t take that long..
Today is when trainning is suppose to start.. and it did but it wasn´t that bad.. (cause it the first day).. But today was Costa Rica´s Independent Day.. so went to the downtown to watch a parade the city puts together.. It was pretty cool.. At first.. OMG I couldn´t believe this parade took 4 hours.. Fustrating let me tell you.. Me and couple of the girls was sitting in the curve.. our butts where hurting big time.. and there was just so many people there.. but once the parade was done It was cool..
We went back to the base had lunch and started our orientation.. that was easy.. we just went over some rules and what they are going to expect from us.. It going to be intense.. but I now i´m going to learn alot..
And oh I found out that for our outreach is going to be in East Africa.. not Israel.. But I´m still excited for Africa.. I´ve always want to go there just because I know it way different..
Ok now I have to get going.. But I write again soon when I get a chance.. And maybe next time I´ll be able to put picture..

5 comments:

sarah said...

Jessica! I am so glad you made it there ok. I have been thinking about you a lot and wondering how everything was going. We miss you a ton!! Can't wait to see some pictures...

Pastor Aaron Ortega said...

awesome blog!
how many guys and girls are in your team?
EAST AFRICA! thats amazing!
alright take care of yourself.

Mom said...

Jessica, I love your blog! that's a great way to see what you doing thank you for remind me about it.
East Africa sound really exciting!!
Wow you'll have fun mi hija.
Love you and God Bless you always.

vanna said...

yay! omg it sounds wonderful..
cant wait for the pics..
wow! africa huh! its gunna be so cool!
cant wait to here more!
love you and miss you!
-v

Anonymous said...

thank you for sharing some of your new friends. the place looks nice very green. have fun, this is your first weekend there.
love you always.