Jc Friends Hostel San Jose

... trust their system would be safe along with some stuff collected from Cuba which we didn´t trust to post there. Surprisingly only cost around 6 pounds for about 2lbs or more of stuff in a large A3 sized parcel. We emptied out our big bags of all essential stuff before the next morning so they were extremely light as well as our day bags and stored the contents at Pangea for our return after Nicaragua as we planned to travel light and return to the same place (very good idea).

Okay…so…I hate when I get fixed on something that gets on my nerves and I cannot get off of it. The thing that I am on right now…"Diane”…Jeez!

She was in my tutoring session today and wanted to argue my profesora down about what a word meant. It was too much. I found myself wishing I could just wash my coffee cup with that brillo pad she is passing off as hair.

Anyway I am progressing ...

... to my room which is off of the kitchen. Its a 7x10 sitting room that has a door to my 7x8 bedroom that connects to a small bathroom.  

 There are 3 girls here from Clemson University who have been here for 3 months but leave in a few days.  There is also a Tico woman who lives in the apartment area across from the girls and Letty's mom lives downstairs.  The family, Mike (the 30 year old Lawyer from ...

... and let them suffocate and die on their own --- so gross!) But I'll get back to that later. We fell asleep pretty quickly because we wanted to go to the beach first thing in the morning. We first stopped at a store to buy some snacks for the beach and our cabin and it was the first time I've seen an actual super market in Costa Rica. It was a bit more expensive because a lot of the food was imported from the U.S., but it was nice to see Chex Mix and ...

... I found it interesting. I will definitely be going back to the university. Then we walked around and found a street with the bars we went to for my friend’s birthday. It was really close to an outlet mall so we stopped in the mall too. We got tired afterwards so we came back to my house and I introduced them to my Tica mom. We decided we wanted to see a movie so we looked up the times and planned to meet up at night and see Transformers 2. We went to the VIP ...

... with religious processions and masses. The official holiday falls on the Thursday and Friday before Easter Sunday, but in reality the country shuts down for the entire week and many places offer few if any services. Public transportation does not run on Thursday and Friday and all alcohol ...

... so that I could hear their perspective on life. Maybe when I come back from Monteverde and I'm totally fluent, I can talk to them then. It kind of bothers me that I haven't conversed with anyone yet, I really hope I get the chance. This trip is going to do wonders for my knowledge of biology. I have so much to learn and I can't wait to be in such a great environment, I'm so excited. I'm gonna go read a little Count of Montecristo before bed and then head off to sleep.

I arrived in San Jose around 10pm. Went through customs. I got all of my luggage this time luckily! I had to go to a station at the airport to buy a ticket (a receipt really) for a taxi. I gave the receipt to a driver and we were off to Hotel Bougainvillea. I held a conversation with the ...

... by the next wave of sea turtles in their search to deposit their eggs safe from harm.  Therefore since 1987 the Costa Rican government allows for an annual temporary suspension of the international ban on turtle-egg taking on the first 2 dawns of an arribada.  In return the community must protect the sea turtles habitat including a daily and nightly patrol of the beaches for poachers. We were so fortunate, we witnessed turtles arriving in droves out of the ocean to ...

... er gratis til piger og hvem siger nej til det? I byen snakkede jeg nogle timer med en fyr fra Washington som bor og arbejder i Costa Rica. Vi har aftalt at mødes senere på året når der bliver højsæson for surfing og så kunne jeg få lidt gratis lektioner(og derved gøre mig selv til grin) men man skal jo starte et sted. Mandag fik jeg mit skoleskema udleveret da undervisningen starter tirsdag for mig. Om aftenen holdt skolen fest for alle os nye ved poolen, så vi fik lækker mad ...