First Day in Costa Rica

Hola!
This is the view from my room here in San Jose.
I have had a wonderful first Day in Costa Rica.  The group of teachers I'm traveling with are a great bunch of interested, interesting and fun people.  Most of them are young women in their 20's who are in their first year of teaching Spanish or Social Studies.  There are 3 or 4 people closer to my age and we have a couple of young men with us too.
We started our day by taking a bus to the Earth University, which was founded by the UN.  We settled into a beautiful classroom and learned a bit more about Costa Rica and the goals of the Earth University.  There are students here studying International Relations and they offer classes to groups like ours.  I saw some of the most incredibly beautiful yellow and orange butterflies along with many bugs I don't recognize. The doors of the classroom were left open and a couple of dogs wandered in as we were watching a powerpoint presentation.
After class we had a walking tour of San Jose, mostly in the rain, which is typical for afternoons here.
Angelo was our tour guide and he had some great stories about the country and "Pura Vida," or the good life in Costa Rica.
I learned that a GPS wouldn't work well here because they don't use street numbers to find houses or other buildings.  Even the mail is delivered to an address like:  The house that is 65 meters north of the Earth University behind the large coconut tree.  So people get pretty upset when a tree gets cut down, especially if it's part of the directions to get to their house.
We went to a wonderful market for lunch and I had the most delicious fruit juice - Cas.  Angelo said he would choose it as his last drink, which was a good enough recommendation for me.
There was a small earthquake here a couple of hours before our plane landed yesterday but apparently they are used to them  - it was a 4 point something....I'm terrible at remembering numbers.
We're staying at the Holiday Inn Aurola in San Jose for these first 3 nights, which is very nice.  After that we'll go to Heredia for the first of our three home stays.