Rodeo in La Suisa

Julie and I travelled to language school on Friday. It was about a three hour drive on roads so windy I got quesy for the first time since I was young. Tuis is a really small town. Kind of like a Gold Bar or something. There are two stores on the highway through town. Julie and I live in a house behind our host families house. They are nice and have two boys 9 and 13. We went to Turrialba on Saturday. Its a bigger town, maybe a Colfax sized place. The market there was great, not as clean as in Atenas but still fun. Lots of fruit at great prices. The citrus fruit here is all confusing because there doesn´t seem to be clear distinctions between them. Oranges, and lemons are both green or yellowish. They all taste good though. Our host family in Tuis had a dog that had puppys 3 or 4 months ago. They are pretty cute dogs.

Sunday afternoon they took us to a rodeo in la Suisa, another small town between Tuis and Turrialba. The youngest boy really likes the bulls. I guess at the rodeo as long as you are 18 you can go in the ring so a bunch of men were running from the bulls and stuff. In addition to the regular matador stuff and bull riding they had this game where they put up three stacks of milk cartons and three people from the crowd would stand on each tower and try to be the last one standing as a lose bull would run around the ring. It was crazy to see people get chased off thier towers or trambled. The whole rodeo had a lighter atmosphere than the one´s in Mexico where they kill the bulls aparently. It was a lot of fun. Last night we took a taxi back home and it was a Toyota Landcruiser taxi. When Julie and I get back to Atenas I´ll make a post with pictures.

You could also pray for our host family´s son Andre. He got sick after the rodeo and was taken to a hospital last night. He´s back home resting now. Some sort of stomach thing. Julie and I aren´t sure exactly. Today we´re posting from language school. My oral and written placement test went pretty quick because i don´t speak Spanish.