We come to realize something we kind of expected when serving in rural north of Nicaragua ..... but here it is actually more of a problem because it is a much bigger place; in a more developed country.
It is bordering on funny ... and that is why I felt I have to write a post about it :)
When meeting for the ministry in the morning we obviously asked the local brothers as one always do "where is the field service tomorrow morning?"
Well guess what... it's impossible to ask for an address here! When asking for directions people keep using for example "it is one street on the opposite side from the McDonalds".
You probably guessed it now..... as it turns out they do not have (nor use) street-names??!!
They simply address places with "200 meters down from Pharmacy on the south side of the street". This actually had a domino effect since we can not even use the GPS on the phones either to find any locations.... we are permanently lost here.
For being such a big place it sounds strange to us as Europeans ..... however it is just life here.... and that is the way it's done ... so we simply have to adapt.
Welcome to Costa Rica and "Aqui es pura vida" as they say locally (an expression they keep using that means "here life is great").
As you probably noticed through our previous blog related to Nicaragua we have continuously learned new things in every place we been to.... and Costa Rica is no exception.
It is one of the joys of traveling and serving abroad as well... one is constantly getting a bigger picture of things and finding out that everything is not done in the same way across the world..... this also means one has to put on some genuine Christian qualities and humble oneself in order to adapt and do what they do locally on occasions.
It obviously hits home more when one experiences this firsthand... both for the better ... and for worse at times LOL :)
