Trip+to+stay+with+host+family

I have about 5 minutes before I have to get on the bus that will take me to my home stay at finca la Argentina. We will be staying with a typical Costa Rican family.We were told not to expect luxurious surroundings but rather a clean and comfortable stay in a house with a tin roof and simple furnishings. The families do not have much and many family members live together,children,grandparents,moms,dads. I am glad there will be little kids, I brought toys and coloring books for them.For the adults I brought beautiful dish towels, cookies,a nativity scene and soap. The family that we are staying with grows bananas,papaya,guava and chayote. I will be translating for everyone because I am the only Spanish speaker.I am so excited! Some other groups will be staying at home stays that grow cacao and make their own chocolate, I am jealous of them. A few of the home stays are on a river, I may go swimming if we are near a river but I will be on the lookout for snakes and alligators. Speaking of snakes, the guide let us know that the next place we go la selva verde in Sarapiqui is crawling with fer de lance snakes and extremely venomous. They are called pit vipers because they have pits in between their mouth and triangular shaped head that allow them to sense that prey is near due to changes in thermal energy. coral snakes are another type of venomous snake but they do not have pits so they are not called pit vipers. When we went to Guayabo I was three feet away from a hog nose pit viper so called because it has a snout like a hog. gotta go!