Blogs from San José, San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 35

Ok, so Ive been in Costa Rica for a month now and still, everything is exciting! Well, I d be worried if it wouldnt be... SO, I have finished school yesterday, which was sad in a way, because now its on me to improve my Spanish, but hey I am still surrounded by all these Spanish speaking people, which is at times still jibberish to me!! Anyway, I got my certificate yesterday as well in some low key graduation ceremony and I am Level 3, whatever that means and am now starting my volunteering project. I did have to give a talk in Spanish yesterday as well by the way. I wasnt prepared at all, but my topic was the traditions in my hometown, like "Kloatscheeten" and that stuff so I was lucky enough to be ... read more

Hola amigos! Just a quick entry! Dont have time again and keyboard is crap!!! Went to Cahuita on the in the north this weekend! Muy caliente y muy tranquilo!!! Is quite on the caribbean site and every thing is a bit more relaxed... There is this constant smell of weed in the streets, which is whz everything is more relaxed, I guess... Beach was great, got a tan!!! haha!!! No sunburn this time! Lazed on the beach most of the weekedn, as I went to a "wild" party on Thursdaz, which caused me to oversleep, pack mz bags in 5 minutes, zeah, wasnt organised again..., took the wrong contac t lenses, forgot my shorts and on top of that, I also lost mz housekezs... AHAHAHAH Well, life is good though! Went snorkelling, wandered in the National ... read more

Buenas tardes amigos! OK, so I am back from an amazing weekend in La Fortuna. La Fortuna is about 5 hours away from San Jose, well 5 hours on a bus that stops at every stop to load in people until its full! And I mean full! Some of those poor people stood next to the driver for like 3 hours or something! Honestly! And there is my *Germanness* coming out again, thinking, what about the insurance? what would actually happen if we had an accident? Anyway! Had an early start again. leaving the house at 5am to get to the bus stop and a seat obviously. Luckily I was able to fall asleep right away, although its not surprising as I had just 3 hours sleep that night, about 5 the night before and 4.5 ... read more

Hey ho! OK, so I am back in San Jose to improve my Spanish, which is going rather well! We took a bus on Friday morning at 6am to Manuel Antonio, which is a town on the Pacific Coast, close to Quepos. It took us just under 4 hours to get there, which was actually not to bad, considering we only paid something like 7 USD return!!! The beach is actually not that far away, probably 150km, but the infrastructure over here is just not brilliant and we had to drive through mountains, up and down and well, it was not the nicest tour!! So, when we finally got there it was already rather hot, so we just tried to find our hostel and changed there to go to the beach. The hostel was pretty basic, ... read more

Well, look at me, 3 blogs in one day... So, I started school on Monday. Its the Costa Rican Language Academy (CRLA). Quite a cool, organised school, its all seems very professional. I was taken to the school on my first day by my host mum, reminded me very much of my first day at school, without the goodie bag we got back then though... Anyway, there were about 12 new students, mostly Germans for some bizarre reason... Had to do a Spanish test and was put in the Beginners class with two other students, Martina from Germany and Katie from Kent, UK. The classes are quite intense as we have got to do 5 hours a day and Sergio, our teacher refuses to speak English! He is quite funny though... Luckily he speaks slowly, so ... read more