Christmas in Costa Rica

Ok, so it is not actually Christmas, but the season is upon us here in San Jose. Thanksgiving is not a holiday here, so there is nothing holding back people and stores from putting up and out Christmas supplies (not that Thanksgiving stops many places any more in the US...).

Today at our school we had a special chapel put on by our teachers. They explained to us some of the Christmas traditions here in Costa Rica (like getting together as a family and making tamales), sang some traditional Christmas songs, and even gave us some homemade Christmas cookies! It was a great time.

The teachers at our school singing Christmas Carols.

The only negative was that it made me think a little more about this upcoming Christmas and I realized that Ashley and I will not be spending Christmas with any of our family. This I think is going to be hard since I have always had a chance to spend time around the holidays with my family.

We are so excited that we are going to be moving to Honduras is less than a month and we are looking forward to getting to know our teammates and learning some of their Christmas traditions, but we know that we will miss seeing our parents and siblings and nieces and nephews and all our other relatives and friends as well.