Sinkhole still sunk

Day two of orientation inside the Ciudad Colon gym. Apparently this sinkhole is going to take awhile to fix. We're supposed to start classes Monday, and I guess we're borrowing an auditorium from another university for next week. Supposedly the road will be fixed sometimes next week. I hope so, because I really want to see the school where I'll be studying this next year!

I also had a bit of a snag with my documents I needed for my student visa. Apparently they're not exactly "valid" or "authentic." The Costa Rican officials came in, and they fingerprinted all of us, and took all our information -- it was all rather intimidating. When I told the guy I was 5'6", he made me stand up to proof it. Seriously. Anyway, my certified copy of my birth certificate and my certified criminal record check (which I had to pay Massachusetts $25 for, and which I had to have notarized) is apparently not official enough. I was apparently supposed to get the secretary of state's office to certify each of these, and then go to the Costa Rican consulate in the States and have them certify them, too. What?! There are a handful of us in the same boat, and we're told to sit tight and they'd give us further instructions. Anyway, most of us were thinking we should just leave the country every 90 days, and that should solve things. Because U.S. citizens are allowed to stay in the country for 90 days, so we figure we can just hop over the border to Nicaragua or to Panama for a weekend, and come back to Costa Rica, and restart the 90 days. So we might do that.

Anyway, I promised photos of my apartment, so here they are!