week 3

Hello again everyone. So I will start with Wednesday. I had school in the morning with my new group (Jordan is nice, Austin wears mesh orange shorts everyday and a red fanny pack over his shoulder. He is weird and really pompous) After that we went for lunch at this resturant called Popos. It serves pizza and hamburgers. Its not my favorite place because the hamburgers in costa rica are literally ham-burgers and arent very good and the pizza is mediocure. After we had some time to kill so we wandered around for a bit and went to Pops for some ice cream and then headed off to the soccer field to meet the new kids. We first played some names games and then played soccer for about an hour. After we went to the serpentaria. I dont think that i wrote about this when i went the first time but you go and look at/hold snakes. First there is a long introduction in spanish and then they take you inside and show you the dangerous snakes and take out a few. Since this was my second time there and im not a huge fan i stayed in the bus with all the kids who had done it already. After that we went home and hung out with our family.

On Thursday we had school in the morning and then we went to Popos for lunch again. I have been spending a lot of time with my new group and i like them a lot. After lunch we went fishing. There was a very very small man-made lake with some fish in it (i have no idea what kind) They gave us some fishing line wrapped around some wood and told us that we were only allowed to catch one each. I caught my first fish ever, it was faily gross though because i had to take the hook out myself and then had a significant amount of fish blood on my for the rest of the day. After we caught all the fish we all bought sodas and hung around and played cards while they cooked the fish for us. Whatever kind of fish it was it wasnt very good, but i ate a little anyway. Since this didnt take very long we went to the internet cafe afterwards and hung out there for awhile. By then a bunch of the kids who went home on wed had put their pictures up (you can look on my facebook if you want to see some new pics that im in) AFter we went to Pops and then went home.

On friday I had school in the morning and then after classes I went repelling again. We drove to the repelling place and had lunch there ( I went with my friends Sara, Olivia and Megan and the new guide Ben) We had a lot of fun and i made friends with all the repelling guides. (they all speak english) but because there were only 5 of us we finished really early and just sat around there for a bit. After we went to Pops (of course) and then went home.

On Saturday, my whole group went white water rafting. I tried to go, but apparently you arent allowed to go 2 weeks in a row so Me, Sally, Megan and Sara all had to stay back. We ended up spending the day with one of our guides named Jose. We thought that they were going to make us go to school, but instead, while the other group had classes we went shopping. First we hit the maxibodega because Jose and our bus driver brian need flip-flops and then we went into the town center. It happened that it was the one year anniversary for Jose and his girlfriend and he had yet to buy a present. We went to this clothing store to buy a shirt that she had mentioned that she liked and a shirt for him to wear out to dinner. After we went to another store to pick out a nice box and card. Then we went to the internet cafe for an hour to kill some time. Then we still had about an hour until lunch and Jose didnt have the keys to the guide house so we went to his house which is actually right across the street ( he lives in Turriabla) On the way to his house we saw some guy selling pirated movies and bought Harry Potter 6 for about 1 dollar. We learned that you get what you pay for though because not only was it terrible quality but in spanish. I had split the price with Sally and so at least i only payed about $0.50) After this we went to lunch with the other group (the kids that came on wed) and then went back to the guide house and watched a movie. I didnt end up watch very much because it was really confusing so i just sat outside and talked to people.

Today is family day (sunday) We slept late and then had breakfast. (i guess it was actually lunch) and then just hung out for a bit. I started a new book (tender at the bone, and i like it so far) Around 3 we went to visit out "grandma" who is our moms mom. Then we went in to town got some ice cream at Pops and met up with our "aunt and uncle" and their kids. Then we walked home and we have been relaxing and just hanging out.
Sorry this is another long one!