I've been pretty busy lately so I think this post will be mostly pictures. So we shall start where I left off. I don't really have words for what leaving Tarcoles was like, in the last week I realized what an incredible experience it was and tried to soak up every second I had left. My host family took me to Punta Leona on the boat my last day to enjoy the ocean, and the morning I left I walked down to Playa Azul so I thought I was going to have some sort of closure on the whole experience. I did not because when my bags were packed we had to tell the little kids I wasn't coming back and my host mom started crying and telling me that all her children are always welcome in her home and I started bawling and my older host brother dragged me to the bus stop. It wasn't pretty. But I am proud to say I didn't miss a single sunset on the beach, looking back on it I got to live somewhere really really awesome for 2 months, I got to have little brothers, dig for clams at night, and be surrounded by piles of burning garbage and poisonous things. But it also hit me that I do not have very much time left here so I went into doing things mode. So we started with rafting the day after I returned to San Jose. Very very fun I recommend it. Then on that wednesday I went with my SJ host family back to the pacific to fail at surfing (my surf board was taken away and I was given a boogie board because I was embarrassing my host brother). Then on Thursday 11 people from my program and I went to the Caribbean. The Caribbean of Costa Rica is very different from the rest of the country but the main difference I noticed was that they but coconut in all the food. I am a big fan of this. We stayed in a hostel that was more or less a tree house and snorkeled over coral reefs. It was a very good weekend. Then on Sunday we went to a soccer game and I must say that the stadium is pretty genious. Because fans get so excited and then aggressive during the games you are not allowed to take in, any sort of bottle, coins, electronics that have throwable batteries, food, or excessive keys. So they make a lot of money when everyone has to turn in their change and then nothing in the stadium can be sold for less than 2 dollars because that is the smallest bill. But from the soccer game I saw in which no one scored, I think all these restrictions are necessary. It was a truly tico experience in which the cement bleachers we were standing on started shaking from the thousands of people jumping on them for the entire game. Then on Tuesday we went to Volcan Irazu so I have officially been to all 5 active volcanos in Costa Rica. On Friday I return to the Pacific!
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| Soccer Game!!!!! |
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| Rafting Group |
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| Cow |
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| Rafting |
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| Rafting |
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| Snorkeling |
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| Fishy |
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| Volcano |
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