{"id":7,"date":"2018-04-06T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturweit.blog\/oliviapingpaya\/?p=7"},"modified":"2018-04-06T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:02:27","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturweit.blog\/oliviapingpaya\/2018\/04\/06\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hi everyone,<\/li>\n<li>Welcome to my blog. Or atleast <em>&#8216;my attempt to write a blog&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; blog. So.. a little about this thing here.. My name is Olivia and I am currently living in Costa Rica. I am here working as a volunteer for the german Goethe-Institute. You&#8217;ve never heard of the Goethe-Institute? Well that&#8217;s okay\u00a0 (I do hope you have heard of Goethe though). The GI is a non-profit German cultural association that promotes the study of German abroad and encourages international cultural exchange and relations. Totally just copied that from Wikipedia. BUT it&#8217;s a very good and general presentation of what the GI is..so why not. My volunteer position is assistant teacher, so I work at a Costa Rican school and teach german\/assist the german teachers in their classes. My school is the only <strong>public<\/strong> school in Costa Rica that teaches German. I am working together with Charlotte who is a volunteer through the GI as well, and she has been here for half a year already. I&#8217;ve been in Costa Rica for almost a month now and I am enjoying my time here so much. I&#8217;m very thankful for Charlotte who has helped me settle into my new life and answered all my annoying questions. So you might wonder why I am doing this &#8211; or maybe you&#8217;re not, but I&#8217;m gonna tell you anyway. Anybody who knows me personally knows that I love traveling. To me it&#8217;s not a hobby, it&#8217;s a lifestyle. I want to get to know different countries, their people, their cultures, their food, their history and future. Everything. I have always wondered what life is like on the other side of the world. Be it Thailand, South Africa or Costa Rica &#8211; every single second people are<strong> living their lives in so many different ways. <\/strong>I have always craved adventure, the unknown lands and something inside me just tells me: <strong>go, go, go!\u00a0<\/strong>Another reason would be my huge interest in learning languages. In high school I really enjoyed studying English and French, and I was kind of bumped that my school didn&#8217;t offer Spanish. So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing here &#8211; learning spanish and teaching german. For me it&#8217;s a <strong>&#8220;Geben und Nehmen&#8221;<\/strong> as we would say in german, which just translates to &#8216;Giving and Taking&#8217;. Also I just had no idea what I wanted to study and I didn&#8217;t feel any urge to study right away.. I feel like we get out of high school and just get thrown away into this wild Jungle and while some try to find a way out, others get to know their environment first.<em> I am taking my time in this world. I am looking around. I don&#8217;t want to rush anything, just flow through life. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Okay, I think this introduction has given you a glance of me as a person and what I am up to in Costa Rica. I will keep updating this blog until I forget to. Or until I don&#8217;t want to anymore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n<p>\/\/Olivia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, Welcome to my blog. Or atleast &#8216;my attempt to write a blog&#8217; &#8211; blog. So.. a little about this thing here.. My name is Olivia and I am currently living in Costa Rica. I am here working as a volunteer for the german Goethe-Institute. 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