Please be advised

I apologize loved ones. If you have tried to contact me by phone you may have failed because i had the wrong numbers listed on this blog!

HERE IS THE CORRECT info

My pone number is country code 506 and num:418-8043

my mailing address for the next 9 weeks is

Joya Green
Cuerpo de Paz
Apartado Postal 1266
100 San Jose
Costa Rica

MOM!

MOM! I bought you a birrrrrrthday present today!!! I finally found the artesan market i was looking for and i had some time today to shop there. Today is my first FREE day here in San Jose. We had a special VAC dinner last night to welcome my calss and say goodbye to the leaving group of volunteers. I has been really important for me to mingle with current and almost finishing up volunteer. Sometimes i think Peace Corps really does know what they´re doing...or they just end up doing it by accident or because of so many years experience. I was gonna buy dad´s fathers day present and mail that as well...but i´ll leave that until closer on into the summer.
I love you all, and i´ll try to send presents home as often as i can. I love the idea of sending a little Costa Rica, and a little me, back home.

ok PC updates. 2 weeks of training are gone with the wind...and i´m starting to feel the drain of training almost every day. But there are some genuinely fun days scattered in and throughout there. The gira is a feildtrip we will go on to visit the sites of volunteers working. We will stop at more than three cities in three days, and there might even be a chance to swim in a lake that MAY have a waterfall. Thats one of the HIGH points i definitely fantasized about while i was in the states.
While i was in the states i asked myself over and over again if i would be able to commit two years of life to service...but life is service, and I honestly believe a good life must include good work. And the good work is coming, the good work i have to do is here, already here. The gentle hand of Jah´s guidance is a solace and a light and an energy and a love and a passion and a hope and a will and a love to live and life to love - not just selfishly those who i want to love, but generously to those i don´t want to love. and my love must know, Will know, that that is a greater good, a greater purpose with a Greater reward, a Greater reward.

D L Love-with a greater reward..... ? :*** oooh, God and love, i have many more than three guilded tears.

Yeah Man

Well its been one week exactly that ive been living en la casa de Dona Cecilia. She is a patient lady and a great cook. She maintains her household with ease and skill. Any any time i come around i can get a plate of food or a cafecito. I feel a lot less pressure to ´work´on my relationship with my new family now that Peace Corps training program has shifted away from ´family integration´ La familia was the focus of this first week of time with our new Costa Rican families. We had focus points and tareas (homeworks) whose purpose was to get us IN more. But i think now that that stuff is over our familia interactions can develop a lot more naturally, and i definatley feel a lot less pressure regarding how i should behave and speak. and especially my non verbal communication will be a lot more honest now that i´m not being so careful abot it.

I love Costa Rica and start praying for me now that i get posted to Limon (Carribean Coast) for my two years of service.

My pone number is country code 506 and num:418-8043

Love en Costa Rica

WELL. First i gotta say, Sorry daddy, my phone card cut off in the middle of our convo! But i will email/call when i get settled in my town.

I'm not sure how often my internet access will be after today. But apparently there will be internet nearby my pueblo. So i might have to tak a bus to get to an internet cafe.

By popular demand from my peace corps class.....I LOVE HEIDI!!!! HEIDI IS GREAT because she used to work for Coca Cola. SHe is the girl that i met and had coffee with before we came to CR and she was my roomate in DC yaaaaaaaaay for good new/old friends!

David says Pura Vida!
Heidi says Puro Amor!
Joya says......

Ok so tonight we went to a bar in Tres Rios.

The way I can recieve mail is at this address

Joya Green
Cuerpo de Paz
Apartado Postal 1266
1000 San Jose
Costa Rica

I love you all and i will write more soon!

I am HERE!

Today was my first full day in Costa Rica Riquisima! God lives here in the mountains abouve San Jose. Were chilling in this mountain retreat near Tres Rios. On Saturday we actually move in with our serperate host families in villages around San Jose. I love my training group. There is so much love between us and we are really all going thru variations of the same crazy things. But just as soon as we start to lean on each other, it feels like we sill be seperating for our seperate homestays. i know some of us will be in the same towns for training, there are only three towns for the 17 of us, but still we will be seperated slightly. Everybody is already likeable and they are trying real good to get to know the others. It feels nice.
Our instructors and support staff all seem really enjoyable and passionate about what they do for Peace Corps, and what they do for us. They will be working really hard to place us in our homestays and it reminds me very much of those dedicated AmeriCorps days when we worked beyond and before decent hours just to get the job done. Theyre defnitly "getting her done".

I know i will have loads to say when i get to my town and my host family so whatch out!
Bye Love Joya! now known as (HOY-a)