miércoles

That's Spanish (myéRkohless) for Wednesday. No, they don't capitalized the beginning letter of the days of the week, not even domingo (Sunday). Nor do they capitalized the months of the year. Just one of those things here that is different.
Miércoles sounds a lot to me like 'miracles' and surely there are those of you sitting there thinking it will be a miracle if you can get accomplished all that was planned for the week.
Speaking of miracles, before I came to Costa Rica, I was taking Rakú classes. I loved it. Now, I would like to do pottery here but have no idea where I would find/buy a kiln. Any suggestions? Rakú is really cool but I doubt I can get the clay here. You can however, extract pottery clay from the earth around the Guanacaste area (or so I've heard). Most of the pottery made in Costa Rica is from that area (so I've heard). Nearly all of the pottery sold by vendors walking the streets of Jaco is made in Nicaragua.

That's a snake coming out of the mouth on the left and a monkey's face under the chin of the other.

Before I came to CR, I was interested in making masks. My theory is everyone has a mask, different ones for different people. An illusion of what that person is or how they want to be seen.
Here are some of my masks. The "Comedy and Tragedy" masks and a self portrait mask. If I did the self portrait again, I would put the other side of the face in now. I've discovered much about life living here. Mostly about myself and of course, the little quirks to living in a foreign country.