The past three weeks (sorry ive been busy)

I actually did go Bungee Jumping three weeks ago and it was amazing. I was pretty darn scared before i went on the platform but when I stood up there it wasn't that bad. You literally get up there and imediately the guy is like 5,4,3,2,1 go and I was just like OK, not even thinking. Then on the way down I was like, holly moley I just jumped off a bridge with a mere rope attached to me (which is why I made a scream of fright) then when the rope caught I realized that I was ok and it was rather peacefull after that (which is why i screamed of glee). I suggest you do it sometime, I could do it over and over again, it is ten times more fun that any roller coaster.

A couple of days after bungee jumping, I decided that I should go play soccer because I hadn't yet. And even though on the way down there I seriously thought I don't know if I should do this I have a bad feeling, I played anyway. Oh I should also mention we were playing on concrete and I was wearing shoes but not tennis shoes, which also added to my uneasiness. We started to play and a couple minutes in I was trying to block Danyelle from passing and I slipped on my right leg and my left ankle rolled the wrong way. We all thought it was a sprain and because I could walk on it and I just got a ride home. Then it swelled up rather badly so I went to the hospital, got an x-ray and was told I fractured the little circular bone on the outside of your ankle and I would in a cast for 6 weeks (i was not excited at all). Then I waited for an hour while the doctor was in surgey and then received my cast and crutchs. I will never ever make fun of people with crutchs, they serioulsy aren't fun. Yes they may build your muscles in the arms but they are still not fun. Oh and i might as well tell you now that early this week I went to a different doctor to get my cast changed like other doctor had wanted. However, this doctor didnt want to change, but I told him that I honeslty do not think i can walk up 3 flights of stairs everyday for another month and take a shower with a plastic bag over my foot. He felt bad so he said even though they hardly ever do this in Costa Rica he would give me a cast that I could get wet (except in salt water), a heel so I walk on the cast and cane (and i was delighted).

Moving on to more exciting things, the weekend after getting my crutchs we went to Montezuma which is a very small beach town with waterfalls nearby. Our hotel was literally right on the beach and all of the restaurants were on two streets it was lovely. I layed out, read a book, talked to random people about my cast as they told me their life stories, saw an orange and black squirrel, watch a guy get coconuts from a tree, tried coconut juice and went to a bar with everyone, it was great. One time I was actually walking to one of the restaurants and these two random guys that I didnt know were like hey you did that playing soccer and I turned around looking confused and said yes. They said word gets around there fast, and everyone knew my story and everything, it was a bit weird.

When we came back to San Jose the rest of the people who were studying abroad finally came (like 50 people or so in all). We started our new spanish classes and electives. Now i'm in Advanced Spanish 1 and Intercultural Communications (with Joaquin who is awesome, he is a mixture of my two favorite teachers of all time: Mr. Moseley and Mr. Griffin). Advanced Spanish is good besides the fact that our teacher grades strictly.

Last weekend we went to Puerto Viejo for snorkeling and the beach. It was similar to Montezuma, they are both very beautiful but some of the beachs in Puerto Viejo are black because volcanoes which is quite interesting. In Puerto Viejo I obviously could not go snorkeling but I still rode on the boat, got lots of sun, watched everyone snorkel, saw the reefs and fish from the boat . I also got to read a lot more in Puerto Viejo ( and thanks to Colleen i started a new book called the Eight by Katherine Neville- if you books like Angels and Demons read it! its awesome) and ate a lot of delicious food including: penne tomato pasta, veggie bruschetta, a vegan burger, a veggie chalupa, and lots of delicious rice and beans of course. Oh also the power went out in the whole town of Puerto Viejo for like 2 hours or so and it was a bit scary. This also happened in Montezuma but it was only for a minute. Anyways you could barely see anything and it was weird.

Like I said I received my cane and new cast this week which is ten times easier to walk up stairs with and less tiring period. Although this weekend everyone went to see the Volcano Arenal and the hot springs there and I couldn't go (its hard to explain why I could last weekend but not this weekend so just know that i couldn't) so I'm staying home and chilling. On Friday night my little tico brothers and sisters made me vegan pizza and we watched Nanny McPhee in Spanish, it was great. They also thought I was sad that I could'nt go to the volcano so they all talked about how it wasnt that great, that it was dangerous, that it rains a lot and that its really cold up there so the people that went are probably going to catch a cold. It was the cutest thing ever. Yesterday, I slept in, relaxed and read on our terrace that has a beautiful view, watched Jimmy Neutron in Spanish with the kids and watched some Friends - it was an awesome day. And today I got to sleep in again, read, helped my tica sister with her homework and now we are all about to go see Tinkerbell 2 in spanish at the movies and I'm not even that sad that I couldnt go with everyone. Plus im going to see it later so it's all good!