Kia, Aylis´, and Ash (yeah, even me) learned how to do some traditional Costa Rican Dances. These videos are from when we danced at a culture day for the school. The following night we danced in the street outside the school for the local neighborhood. The girls are in first video. They are the two tallest with the blue dresses (dresses that my mom made while visiting here a few weeks ago). This dance is called “Que linda Tica” or “Pretty Costa Rican girls.” The girls got some complements from some ticas who said they were wondering who´s children they were becuase “they move like Ticas!”

I´m the guy who is saying something at the start of this dance. What is happening is that the men and the women are flirting with one another. These poems that we are shouting are called “bombas” and are fun flirts with the other (or taunts of mother-in-laws). Mine was “Qué bonita esta la luna, con su cielo azul-celeste. Me he de casar contigo, aunque la vida me cueste”. Literally, it means “How beautiful is the moon with it´s blue colored sky. I will marry you, even if it costs me my life!” Her response is that her mama doesn´t want her to get married and that she doesn´t want to marry me either… All the men in the video are students. Three of the women are teachers at the language school and one is a student (and she is very pregnant, as well).

This final dance that we were all in is about a bull fight. Near the end, I become a horse and the matador on my back ropes the bull and we pull him off the dance floor. During the victory celebration, the bull escapes and gores the matador. ¡Qué triste!

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