Apr 27, 2006 | Culture Shock, Moving-To, Spanish
This morning, I had my second private Spanish lesson with Esther at the Amistad Institute. Esther is our beauty queen profesora de Español. She is charged with teaching me to speak the language!!! Which I am going to learn come hell or high water. I confess to being...
Apr 11, 2006 | Communications, Culture Shock, Living-In, Moving-To, Real Estate, Skype, Utilities
Guess what? There is NO DSL at the new house. Notice I’m not calling it "our" new house anymore, am I? In my conversation with I.C.E. (Eee-say, the government monopoly that controls ALL the phone lines and ALL related services), when the Customer...
Apr 8, 2006 | Culture Shock, Expat, Moving-To
This from my friend, Marie: “I hope your immersion in Costa Rica is going well. I’ve enjoyed your early adventures through your blog. It made me think of my years living in Rio. First, there was the absolute fascination with everything exotic and...
Apr 2, 2006 | Communications, Culture Shock, Living-In, Moving-To, Utilities
THE PLAYERS The Type A is played by me. Mañana Land is personified exquisitely by I.C.E. (eee-say), the government monopoly that controls the phone lines and – tears are streaming down my face – access to the World Wide Web. THE PROBLEM ...
Mar 16, 2006 | Cost of Living, Culture Shock, Moving-To, Political Blah-Blah
PHOTO BLURB FROM AM Costa Rica: "The magistrates of the Sala IV constitutional court have a little light reading. The judiciary released this photo Wednesday showing the documents associated with the new tax plan that is being evaluated for constitutionality by...
Mar 13, 2006 | Cost of Living, Moving-To, Political Blah-Blah
Remember what I said a coupla days ago about how doing something right included moving to Costa Rica? Scratch that. I moved here just in time to discover Costa Rica planning to tax the bejesus out of foreign residents (is "foreign residents" an oxymoron?)...
Feb 26, 2006 | 1rst Costa Rica post, Moving-To
It's day 29 of our brand spanking new life in Costa Rica. Time to take a breath, and do a little 'splainin'. Here goes: We arrived at the San Jose International Airport 28 January 06 with 16 bags of luggage and four laptops. We'd decided to move to...
