Posada Amon Inn San Jose

... Unluckily the airport is on a hill and trying to walk down it with both our backpacks was a bit of a wobbly and twisty business but only a few 100 meters. We discovered that the cab price went down from $25 at the top of the hill miraculously to $15 on the road just outside the airport. There were a few buses at the stop going to different places and we almost managed to catch the wrong one but a friendly tout pointed us in the right direction onto a shouting bus ...

... true. I tasted the local drink Cacique. They tout it as a vodka rum mix. I am not sure the mix, I am sure of the taste…nast. I did stay until 3:30am. I had to be sure the party scene was not for me. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. It didn’t.
I did learn though that it is acceptable to wear and old church dress and a pair of my Nana’s old shoes to the club if you’re German…thats good to know.

... Costa Rican foods and thats our lunch for the day.  Today we learned how to make "dulcecitos de coco" (basically small macaroons) and were given the recipe.  

Tonight I'll likely join the others in my ISA group who know a few of the people who are almost finished with their time here.  Apparently there is a bar downtown and liters of beer are like $2-sounds like a steal.  

... is very calm and laid back. Very different than the States, or at least different than the East Coast. No one is rushed, it is a very different feel here, but it’s nice for a change.

Yesterday was our last day of class when I handed in my final paper on child soldiers in El Salvador and Colombia. Today we went on our last trip as a group to a volcano called Irazu. There was so much fog that if you walked twenty feet or so away from the ...

... I get stuck with the worst half, the bathrooms; I say this because we first had to clean the bathrooms which was gross and then we ate lunch super fast while waiting for the bathrooms to dry and then while we were heading back, the other group had finished their easy paint job and went off to the beach while we spent the next two hours in an extremely small space with no air ventilation, no paint masks, and no gloves. We were hot sweaty, and all wanted some ...

... our hostel, Arenal Backpackers, and then headed to a local national park which to take a look at the waterfall there. But first we decided to climb Cerro Chato, a 600 or 800m peak with a lake on top and great views of the volcana, not that we actually saw any of that, beacuse we got lost lass than half way up. I think it was combo of our bad directional sense and bad signage. We ended up back at the office asking for our money back, but no luck. So then we went to the waterfall, had ...

... to actually subdue me with any punches, choke holds, and numerous knees to the groin which were the muggers choice streeet fight moves apparently. So after acquiring back my passport, credit cards, and flyfishing hat which was taken as well. I stumbled back to Merchen and my safe zone my newly met friend Suzan from Chicago who helped me out and brought me to the doctor for my 19 stitches. Well now it's 10 days later and I'm just getting my ...

... is going down a lot, so i'm assuming thats a sign that its working. My antibiotics will be finished on Monday and when they do I will be going back to the father and his son for a check to make sure that everything is ok and see if anything more needs to happen. Well this week has been a stressful, but it is starting to get better. Nathan has been absolutely amazing during this whole ordeal, words can't even begin to describe. He has been there for me ...

... has started in teh square for the day´s festival (still don´t know what it´s for). We have a wander around the small national zoo & sort tickets for whatever is on at the National Theatre - some sort of dance show festival. I´ll let you know later but its only GBP3 each - the sort of theatre ticket prices I like. Well the theatre was very impressive but the first piece in this "festival of ...

... I kind of wished I wasn't so scared. After breakfast we went looking for Vicky to see what we needed to do. Since I went with the Britsh girls on the boat ride with Jason we had a short day. We went at 10:30 to the Nutrition Center to help with the kids' lunch. But since we had time between times Federico and I sat in the hammocks and talked. I asked him about a lot of things. I am always interested to hear about others lives. I asked him if ...