Another 3 Weeks Gone

I believe it was three weeks ago that I went to my little tica sister's First Communion. It was very cool and interesting. There were like 20 little girls in white long dresses, they all looked like flower girls. The service was very long and of course I did not understand it all but it was very moving. I never realized how Catholics were about first communion, I even went with wet hair because I woke up late and I felt like everyone was looking at me. Anyway it was still good. After the service we went back to the house where 30 or 40 people came over and we had a gourmet cooked meal by a chef (and he cooked me some special tofu, veggies and mashed potatoes) it was beyond delicious. I also had a long talk in Spanish with an elderly woman from Hondorus. It was interesting. Oh and this was on Saturday.



The next day I think, I went to Isla Tortuga with our group and it was really fun. We road a huge boat there that had a "hot tub" which was really a rectanglur hole with cold water in it that splashed everyone around it like crazy. It was rather amusing though. When we reached the small island, I realized on a lawn chair the whole time, took a few naps and did some homework. It was wonderful. I go to also pet a pig that was basically a dog, or at least it acted like one. Then we all got fed really delicious food and we chilled some more on the beach. When we returned on the boat two nice looking ticos actually carried me on board, it was nice to say the least. Then we sailed home and saw the sun set, it was completely gorgeous.

The next weekend I just chilled at home because we had a long weekend. I got to read, relax, get ahead in homework and chill around San Jose. I went to this bagel shop one day, practically read all day and ate some wonderful soup and had some coffee. It was a much needed break. I also went to a really great restaurant with some friends called Cafe Mundo that had some really tasty bread with olive oil and pasta. Then the next day I went out with my tica extended family for my tica aunt's 30th birthday party where I also had some tasty pasta. We had all a lot of fun on this day too.

Then my tica mother and I made an appointment to get my cast off for Monday but we decided that I should just get it off at the emergency that day so I could have more fun on the weekend. So my tica aunt took me to the emergency room where there was yet another orthopedic doctor (i've had three) and I got an x-ray and apparently everything was all good so I got it taken off. Just to warn you if you ever have a cast it is Extremely tickilish when you get it taken off. They have a cast cutter (its not sharp) it just vibrates and when it touchs your skin it is unbearably tickily. And when you doctor does not understand English and you do not know the word for ticklish it can be quite a hilarious situation. But anyway I got it off and it was disgustingly gross, it was covered with dry skin, swollen, smelly and hairy which is not a good combination. But once i cleaned it is was alright, even though the doctor said it will continue to hurt for the next couple of days and keep getting swollen by 2 weeks I should be in fine form.

So on Friday we left for Jaco beach for halloween (I was a forest ranger). We said in a very small hostel with an abundance of people (a mix-up that would take way too long to explain) so our non-heavy drinkers room there were six beds and we had 12 or 13 people including two guys. It was quite an intersting two nights. There was actually less people the first night and so it was not that bad. But after our wonderful relaxing day on the beach, in the water and wonderful food ( i even had a delicious soy burger!) and coffee, we had a night fool of crazy drunk people. Also the crazy german owners of our hostel had like a sixth sense or something and always knew when our bathroom door inside of our room was open (for some reason we had to keep it closed). They keyed into our room three times in those 2 nights to come close the door and we still do not know how they knew it was open, we hoped that there were no cameras. Anyway at one point in the night a friend of our friend's angrily knocked on our door because he couldnt find his passport and he just knew we had it. He tried to push into our room multiple times and it was a bit scary. Then somehow people got locked out of the hostel and others got locked in because there was no key to a certain door, so some people climbed down from roof (which is four floors up). While someone else tore down the owner's room next to ours and then drilled it back together. Because apparently there was just a drill there. It was really scary and hard to sleep and we at many points in our trip were scared for our lives. But we ended up ok in the end and we just got out as early as we could this morning. And today we went to really nice church service through some people that some of our friends knew and it was really nice. Some of the starters of the church were actually from Lexington, South Carolina interesting enough. It was a rather small but very nice and much needed church service that was both in English and Spanish. Then we all took a bus home and everything is fine and dandy now. Needless to say it was quite an interesting weekend.