Samara Semanas

10/17/2019

By Siri

This is not Seattle weather; here it is rainy but hot. When not in school, my days include surfing, swimming and chilling at the house which I know sounds great but last week I was feeling more moody

I am glad to meet some people my age living nearby. First, I met Summer from Oregon who will be in Costa Rica for a year with her family. She goes to a local school so after our classes we had fun hanging out at the beach on boogie boards This week a new family, that is traveling the world for a year also, started a month at Intercultura school and we shared some of class together. Grace and Lyla, who are from California, fun kids our age. Now I have really been enjoying swimming at the beach a lot or the pool at my house even more

To add to meeting friends, this week’s highlights have been: Dia de las Culturas, when I taught our school how to make smore’s – which they loved. My favorite teacher for Spanish is Dariana, she is so good and makes me laugh, and I have her this week, my last week in Samara.  I surfed green waves with my coach Elder who taught me the timing to catch them. I jogged with my mom in the morning in the rain, later that afternoon I swam with my brother and dad in the ocean before we jogged in the rain together.  So, it turned out to be a pretty good week overall, I’d say.

 Some things I think of are friends, food, fall, Scout’s third birthday and one and only Seattle. I am not home sick; I put that aside and I am so excited for the next place, the Galapagos.