Blogs from San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 88

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Arrived in Costa Rica this morning, in San Jose at 4 AM after a 15 hour bus ride from Panama City. The bus ride was a pain in my ass! Well, not so much the bus ride but the border. It was hell compaired to the border on the Caribean side. I counted, and I had my passport checked over 9 times. NINE! ACK! We also had to have our luggage searched several times which meant so much waiting for the whole bus to get everything in order. Yikes! Porbally a 2 hour ordeal as opposed to the simple 30 minutos at the other border. It might have been less annoying at the border if the guy sitting next to me on the bus wasnt constantly getting all up in my nut space (Morgan). Everytime hed ... read more

I finished my first week of school. I’m finally ready to slow down and get back into a routine. The past few months have been a long vacation for me and even though I would love to still be on vacation it will be nice to have responsibilities again. Pretty much everything (with respect to classes) is different from the US. In all of my classes the teacher arrived late and most of them had the window open with either the noise of a jackhammer serenading our lesson or the noise of the busy streets to help drown out the already soft spoken teacher in my Portuguese class. But despite all of these distractions I’m sure that I will love my classes here. I’m very excited for both the material I will be studying and for ... read more

COSTA RICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW Soo doing my pre travel packing and shopping. I've figured Its pretty darn HOT there soo I better take clothes that will dry Fast. Soo I bought a nice lil 27 dollar dakine day backpack! its pretty nice. That I think was my fav. purchase. Anyways listening to some Damien Rice. ... read more

With classes starting tomorrow i though it would be a good idea to write about the last few days which have been very enlightening for me. I can honestly say that i received my first 'American resistance' the other day at a Costa Rican party. The party had about 10 people with our group consisting of two Americans, one Mexican, and one Canadian. As the night progressed it was easy to see their animosity towards America, mostly political. Many students as well as the general pubic have been protesting the TLC (a central American version of NAFTA), they don't want American companies entering the Costa Rican market--one example was with bell south (an electric company). It also seems that almost everyone here does not agree with how America handled the war and what they are doing ... read more