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pura vida Joined: December 10th 2008
Logged in: March 24th 2009
Logged in: March 24th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
la fortuna2
The last two weeks for me have been very busy. the last week of my second spanish class was last week and i had project after project and test after test.the weekend before that though was awesome. i went with one other girl to la fortuna costa rica. we stayed at a hostel where we could see the arenal volcano from. it was by far my favorite weekend. the other girl i went with doesnt speak like any spanish so it was good for me cause i had to speak twice as much to cover for both of us.when we went to by the bus tickets we didnt have enough on hand to buy tickets and pay for a taxi without stopping at this really shady atm so we decided to walk which doesnt take long ... read more
costa rica2-03
so...our house internet no ha sido funciando (has not been working) so i wasnt able to write or put pictures up but we are all ready to go now.so oh geez like three weekends ago i went to manuel antonio a national park. the beaches were beautiful and we went a nature hike and saw all kinds of animals. from like 1 inch bats to 1 foot bats, birds, and of course monkeys!i witnessed the white faced ones steal a guys backpack...they are such criminals.but they slowly dropped down his camera and shoes and sunblock...they only want food.it was really pretty but i dont think id go back.there were tourists everywhere and i think people spoke more english than spanish. and it didnt help that i got super sick off dinner saturday night and went to ... read more
Photo 2
so i have been really busy and havent wrote in almost two weeks!!oops alright so here is a big update for you all..alright two weekends ago we went to puerto viejo a city on the caribbean coast.it was by far my favorite place of all and possibly i have ever been in my life.it was beautiful.it is a really chill town with a jamaican feel reggae music and this music called regaton is really popular down here it is like reggae/hip hop kinda i guess is the best way to describe it.we got there friday night and we ate at a caribbean restaurant which this guy told us was really cheap but that ended up being a huge lie because my meal cost 7.000 colones or like $14.and when im used to being able to get ... read more
Photo 1
i had a really busy weekend so sorry i am a little behind but i have a lot to tell you all about and a lot of pictures too!im starting my second week of classes already! monday and wednesdays i have spanish grammar/conversation from 8-12 and then latin american dialect class from 1-3, tuesdays thursdays and fridays i have just spanish grammar/conversation class 8-12. my dialect class is really hard cause it is all in spanish and for those that are really advanced speakers but i just have to work harder at i suppose. there is another guy that is in my normal spanish class so we are in the same boat. friday night my roommates and a friend that was visiting my roommate and i went out to el rio to get dinner. while we ... read more
pina colada
so yesterday after class i decided to make my way to the supermarket.i wasnt quite sure where it was but i had an idea.so i start walking cause i really had nothing else to do and needless to say my trip to the supermarket turned into like a 2 hour adventure of walking.i walked and walked with no idea where i was.then eventually asked some lady how to get home and she told me.so needless to say i arrived back home with no food, a grumbling stomach, and blisters :( i told my family when i got home and apparently i was supposed to turn right instead of left and i would have been fine!well ahora yo se (now i know). after this i definitely took a shower after working up this huge sweat and took ... read more
my roommates and i went out on the town last night for the first time.we really had no idea where to go or where anything was so we just started walking.we stopped at la residencia tierrasol where like 15 other students live. it's basically real world costa rican style there. when we got there this guard stopped us and there we struggled for several minutes as he talked to us in spanish and wouldnt let us past as he pointed at his tv yelling toro toro (bull bull). after a few minutes with our collective brains we figured out that no one was home because they all went to the bull fight in zapote. so thus began our journey to zapote and our first experience in a taxi there.it went well until we had to figure ... read more
Costa Rica 1-08
well im here.i got here about 1230 in the afternoon yesterday after being at the airport by 330 that morning for a 530 flight :( to be honest yesterday was rough.first of all i got into the san jose airport and was bombarded by spanish and people offering taxi rides and not leaving me alone but i survived.i didnt really like it idk if it was that i was up for 36 hours and i was irritable or what.my host mom, kathy, picked me up with her 3 kids esteban-12, mariana-8, and santi-6.their house is beautiful and not at all what i expected.i have my own room and i can see a volcano from the kitchen window.its very modern and i played wii tennis with santi last night and watched cheaper by the dozen 2 in ... read more
