Day 10: Déjà vu?

Getting up today was very hard. I was so tired. But nevertheless I was at school by 8:30 for the start of class all by myself again.
At the school usually what happens is that each week you progress to a new level, receive a new workbook and get a new teacher. But since I was by myself yesterday, and I have picked up the stuff quickly, my teacher Nuria decided to start me on a new workbook today. While the rate of learning is really fast, I am enjoying it a lot, as day by day I am able to speak with more and more complexity and express myself in Spanish clearer and clearer. Today in class Nuria had a smoothie with her that looked really good, and it turned out it was from a shop right next door to the school. I caved in to the craving and bought one during one of my breaks from class.
While I know practice makes perfect and all that, I received way too much homework today, about 8 pages of the workbook. I keep thinking to myself how typical of me that even when I am only holiday, I go to a school and have homework :)
After class it started raining, but despite it, I took a quick walk to one of the small markets to buy a few small souvenirs.
I then got picked up and went home for lunch.
Shortly after lunch Jose and I got dropped off in the centre of Heredia, before meeting up with Jose's friend Rodolfo. By now the rain was becoming a little heavy, worsened by the strong winds. We caught the bus part way into San Jose, before hopping off to walk in the rain to the next bus stop.
Jose jokingly said that it was 3km to the bus stop from where we had got off, but I really think it ended up being about that long. We finally caught the next bus, by now our clothes were nicely doused with the rain, and only got off when Multiplaza was in our sight.
However, we did not go straight to Multiplaza, we first walked to one of only two Starbucks in Costa Rica. It was quite nice to be in a Starbucks again, and I ordered a white hot chocolate with a raspberry shot, and thing called a Chilean cake.
The drink was not as it is when I order the same thing in New Zealand, I think the enemy 'lost in translation' struck again, as the raspberry part was all lumpy... Still, after a little stir, it tasted fine. The cake on the other hand was amazing, so rich with heaps of dulce de leche, but amazing.
We then walked to Multiplaza and strolled the mall for hours and I was the only one to buy things, and, yes, Mum, I did buy a t-shirt... :)
It was night time when we left the mall, and we got back home at 10pm. I still had my blog to write and all my homework to do. It was quite a late night... or really I should say early morning.

The sweet taste of Starbucks