I have officially been here for 9 days!!! I am a master bus taker and have completed one adventure! This weekend I went to Manuel Antonio National Park which is in the south pacific of the country and should be marked on the map that I posted earlier. It was absolutely beautiful!! 12 of the people from the program went and we stayed in a hostel for two nights and went to the park all day Saturday. Manuel Antonio is known for its wildlife and beautiful beaches. I found both of those to be true in terms of wildlife I saw white-faced monkeys, howler monkeys, sloths (pellerozos in spanish which translates to the lazies which I find apt), a very nice iguana ana two very bold raccoons. We woke up way too early (5:30 am) because a guide book said that all the cool animals were up then. I was not disappointed but very very sleepy. A group of us hiked about a mile to the closest beach and set up camp for the day. 8-2 on Saturday was spent swimming, sleeping in the shade, and exploring the park it was a pretty perfect first weekend. I had been warned previously but the animals are really quite bold in the park and two raccoons came up to our stuff while we were sitting there and tried to take someones bag. They were rather persistent and the bag needed to be taken out of their hands before they admitted defeat. I observed a similar episode occur with monkeys. Now that I am back in San Jose most of my time will be dedicated to my research project which is proving rather difficult I am obligated to have an outline of it written by Thursday so I will be able to inform you all in a more eloquent manner later but I will be working with a fishing cooperative on the Pacific coast and will be preforming some sort of economic analysis involving the environmental restrictions but on the fishermen there. Tomorrow I am taking a dance class and this friday I am visiting a chocolate farm!!!!
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