Hostel Casa Del Parque San Jose

... next to the bedroom. It also had a top notch restaurant we discovered for local food such as rice and beans, with a salad, plantain and a taco for $5US. We then had a bag meltdown and decided to take out loads of things getting on our nerves like mirrors that were too large, extra toilet rolls being carried around, and even an electronic translator that was not cutting it as much as the small dictionary. Posted all these back at the local post office as we seemed ...

... furiously): Still here? And it’s gonna stop?

Bus Driver (Exasperated sigh): Si Orita

A bus rounded the corner. I put my hand out. It stopped and I got on. I rode an hour and a half back to familiar scenery. I did not know how to let the bus driver know that I wanted to get off, so I just sat at the edge of my seat until someone signaled that they wanted to get off.

The bus stopped

I got off…and found a bar.

Arrived from my flight in San Jose around 11am.  We waited for the others in the group before we left the airport for Veritas University.  We arrived outside Veritas and already our Tico (a Costa Rican person) parents were there to pick us up.  

 I met Juan and we drove 2 blocks, made a u-turn and picked up Letty then drove 3 blocks to their house.  Their house is LITERALLY next-door to the university.  I was ...

... we needed two rooms so we were not happy, but it ended up working out. Me and my friends ended up getting a room with air conditioning...however, I'm not sure what a good trade off that was. We actually had a cockroach infestation and I'm pretty sure I'm officially terrified of those things. That night we had two cockroaches to kill... (although it is not good to kill cockroaches because they carry their eggs on their back so it is better to capture ...

... on but the campus was beautiful and that’s probably due to the vegetation they can grow. The buildings were set up really interestingly too – at MSU, some buildings hold a mixture of classes that don’t all belong to the same field; at the UCR, it seemed like there was one building for biology, one for ecology, one for geology….each was completely separate. I’m sure other universities in the US are set up like that but since MSU is ...

... closed and the few that do open do so with less staff. Of course they celebrate the usual holidays as Christmas and New Year's in Costa Rica, but besides these, there are lots of typical local and Costa Rican holidays. The biggest holiday in Costa Rica is Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week, which is ...

... care of that, so it won't bother me in Costa Rica. Everything here seems so run down. But at the same time, it doesn't seem so bad because everyone lives that way, so it's weird. There are lots of tin-roofed houses with big solid gates in front, that's pretty much all you see as you walk or drive through town. I'm not sure if I'm in culture shock or not, but it is really so different than the US. I wish we could spend time talking to people here - I wish my spanish was ...

... I just remembered there was a bunch of baby rabbits in a nest that were born today too. We found them when we cleaned the rabbits. There were two baby goats born on Monday. On Sunday it was mommies birthday and one of the sheep had a baby that day too. I can't explain that one because I never saw that one happening. Harold said it seems like most of the farm animals are born on someones birthday here at the farm, but they are never born on his.

... why the beach is littered with white remains of broken turtle eggs.  This is a result of the thousands of Olive Ridley turtles that come to nest here in Playa Ostional.  In one single arribada, the turtles will leave up to 10 million eggs on the volcanic beach of Ostional.   Interstingly, Ostional is the only beach in the world were egg poaching is legal. Scientist found that most eggs that are deposited in the first two nights of the arribada are inadvertently dug ...

... oplevelse. Efter gåturen vendte vi næsen hjemad mod skolen og holdt ind på en restaurant på vejen for at få frokost. Her dukkede der et band op bestående af nogle gamle mænd(nok omkring 60-70 år) og de spillede salsa musik for os på deres marimbaer og trommer. Det var rigtig hyggeligt. Efter en 4 timers køretur nåede vi hjem og jeg fik et bad som var meget tiltrængt :) Vi havde alle mest lyst til at gå i seng men der var "ladies night" på et af diskotekerne her i Tamarindo, dvs. at ...