Bienvenidos a Heredia

My host family in Heredia is fun, they have had quite a few students before so they like to help me out and correct my Spanish. My host sister Estefania is 8yrs old and adorable, I think she likes me a lot and wants to cook something with me. Her brother, Fabricio (such a great name!) is your typical 11 yr old, loves his Nintendo DS and asked me what Wii games I played our first night at dinner. I played a charades sort of game with both of them and a friend of Fabricio's today and I was absolutely terrible, didn't know half the words I was given, but the kids were great and hilarious to watch. My host parents are super sweet- my mom, Alba, has a great energy and calls me Alexandrita. My padre, Oscar, is funny and he works for the UN in San Jose at some sort of institute against criminal activity in Costa Rica.
I have a pretty sweet room, and I don't use the word sweet lightly. My bedroom is the only one on the second story and I have my own bathroom, a television and a lovely big bed. My madre told me that the television only gets Spanish channels though the rest of the televisions and the house get international channels. In my best interest as far as learning Spanish was what she told, so I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire dubbed in Spanish while I unpacked last night, it was interesting. I felt like Harry had a really feminine voice.
Tomorrow I'm taking the bus for the first time to the IFSA office in downtown Heredia. I'm a little nervous but my mom drove me around in circles today pointing out the stops over and over again trying to make sure I understood where I needed to be. It takes some getting used be treated more like a child, but it's comforting a bit to to have that extra attention, because the language, landscape and people are all different and I need some extra help getting around. We are going on a tour of the university and Heredia tomorrow so that should help with my bearings.