Mud and Humidity

Today is the first official day of our course, and the main order of business is...watching the World Cup. Costa Rica is poised to get completely slaughtered by Germany, so there will be giant TV screens up all over town for everyone to watch. Our fearless leaders decided that it would be better if we didn't go downtown to watch in case Costa Rica manages to score or (as unlikely as it sounds) to win, we may not get back for three days. We're going to watch on the university campus instead, which is in walking distance.
We had the awful "get to know each other" dinner last night. Barf. I managed to only say a couple of inappropriate things, I think. Mingling gives me a headache.