It's Raining, It's Clouding.

Up early, looking nice out.

Day started out great-with a spider climbing on Daisy, my host mom, and her literally jumping out of her seat yelling to get it off. This is not to say that I found joy in her suffering, only that I find joy in the fact that we both do suffer...when we must deal with insects. haha.

Spent the morning in spanish class. Did my presentation on regueton then back to the grind with studio. Had an informational meeting with an engineer about septic systems...which I missed half of because I was in the library and it wasn't on the schedule. Then we had our client meeting in the afternoon with Chepe (Jose Francisco). It went really well. He's very mild-mannered and seemed pretty content with all of the projects. After her left, we decided that the best way to progress to give them fewer options to choose from is to split into two groups. Will and I are going to work together to create a scheme which is more compact and includes the police station within the same building as the offices, while Keith and Josh work on a scheme which includes the police station as a separate building.

Our debriefing clearly took place at the Cheese Factory (better known as icecream and brownie haven of Monteverde Institute students...).

It was almost the end of the day, but Will and I sat and tried to gather our mjor ideas and goals for our new design. This is definitely going to be tough because Chepe was so vague and didn't have many negatives, and no SUPER-positives to give too much direction. We're kind of on our own...I guess we'll take this as an opportunity to live the architects dream? Design what you know works and includes the program, but how you want to envision it? Here goes, right?!

Before we left..."the" scorpion that people saw earlier in the week was spotted...and THIS time we were all prepared...with one goal: catch the scorpion. Everyone ran up the stairs...except Linsey, who fled her desk as if a puma was crawling through the wall! I chased it into a crack...which was not open the the floor below, and the capture ensued. Once in a box, it was transferred to the plastic garbage can at which point Keith re-verbalized his desire to catch another so that they could fight...and within seconds Dan informed us that he found another one near our desks...so we went running (again) and this time I got to catch it! Threw it in...they both played dead...

and then...we found another one. That's right...that made 3 scorpions, by our desks, in 45 minutes and when we got bored of watching them and taking pictures and were on our way out to walk home, they found another. 4. Haha. Welcome to Costa Rica.

The rest of the night was pretty lame in comparison...just dinner and listening to Daisy and Marlen talking about perfumes, makeup, and purses. Everyone else was meeting up at 8 either at the Pizzeria or to go on a hike but I got sleepy in the past half hour. Shower then bed.