The Real World....Tamarindo

Hola de Tamarindo.
Well, I have now completed four days of class, so the first week is almost over. All remains well here in CR and today is sunny and warm (mid 90's).
I have a few minutes, so I thought I would write a bit about "student life" at the school. Most of the students are from America or Switzerland (with a few from England or Australia)and are generally around that "just out of college" age. I am living in one of the student houses, and there are six of us in three bedrooms. My roomate is a guy from Norway who speaks an untold number of languages (including Spanish, if you ask me). Of course, he speaks perfect English as well and is a pretty nice guy. There are the two Aspenites from Colorado, a guy from Nebraska, and another girl from Kentucky. All in all, it's a great group of people. I DO feel like I'm in an episode of THE REAL WORLD at times with the usual "shananignas", but it's a good time. In fact, it's sort of a mix between MTV reality and college life. Of course, there are other students that are coming by/hanging out etc., so it's a good central place to live FOR NOW.
THE PROBLEM though is that I'm not really learning a whole lot of Spanish outside of class. Like I said, it's a great time hanging with the people, but we are all speaking English outside of class. There IS a change on the horizon.......more on that later.
Still no time to surf or buy a board, but I did end my jog last night with a dip in the ocean. Wow....pretty amazing. The sun was setting, the water was extremely warm, and the surf was perfect for a bit of wave-frolicking. I think I'll have to do a repeat tonight.

That's it for now.
I'm heading across the street to the bakery.
WORD!