Well life has been proceeding as normal here in Costa Rica. No new exciting developments other than two weeks from today I'll be waking up in my own bed to my Mom singing the good morning song, Dad cooking breakfast and watching Cops, and Allison being Allison...And my dog. I miss those things now. I miss the comforts of home, I have never cherished having toilet paper, consistently hot water, soap, and silence more than I do now. Haha. I'm getting more and more excited to come home and start nannying and working and spending time with the people I love and that I know love me in return.
Don't get me wrong, I've definitely met some people here who will remain in my life for a very long time (or at least I plan on staying in touch with them) and I get along well with everyone, but it'll be really nice to be around people who've known me through my ups and downs and with whom I can be myself and not feel judged. I guess more than anything I just miss the "norm". I love it here in Costa Rica, but it's not the home I know and love and the people I know and love aren't here with me either. I don't want to leave Costa Rica, but at the same time I want to have the comforts of the things I'm use to. It gets really old having to worry about who's going to walk home with you after 5 pm because it'll be dark by 6 and worrying about not looking too much like a tourist who doesn't know what they're doing because then I'll be a target for getting mugged. It'll also be nice not to have to throw the toilet paper in a trash can and worry about even having toilet paper/soap to use...so weird. You'll find multiple girls at once in the bathroom brushing their teeth but you'll have to try four bathrooms before you're able to find one with toilet paper...Priorities.
This week was uneventful and consisted of class, stressing over a presentation Wednesday, making a fool of myself interviewing locals in the market, going out dancing to a local club with live music on Monday and only people over the age of 40 were there dancing, and dancing with Carley in dance class. Because there are so few guys in our program we tend to have to dance with girls, which means one of us has to be the "guy". When ever me and Carley dance together I'm the guy but we decided to change it up for our last dance class and she proceeded to spin me and yell "spin bitch". We then started laughing so hard we forgot to dance. So great! I'm really going to miss this girl once I leave Costa Rica. I've found not only a wonderful friend, but also a wonderful person inside and out. I really hope that we're able to keep in touch once we head back to our respective homes. We both plan on it but we all know how busy life can get sometimes...Fingers crossed that we stay in touch and keep up our promises to travel together! :)
Not much else to talk about. My host family might take me to Monte Verde today/tomorrow and the beach in Guanacaste. Which is suppose to have some of the best beaches in Costa Rica. They're trying to borrow a friends car to take us there since theirs wouldn't make it up the mountain so hopefully everything works out. I would really love to go there and also spend more time with them. We'll see what happens! If I don't even up going I'll be hanging around Heredia for the weekend and hopefully going out at some point. Some of the people from my group decided to go to Nicaragua this weekend but I really had no desire to go so I stayed here along with a few other people who didn't want to go. We'll see what this last free weekend here in Costa Rica has in store for me! I can't believe my birthday is a week from tomorrow! And that I'm done with classes after Thursday and get to go tour southern Costa Rica. We got the itinerary for the trip a few days ago and I'm oober excited to go now. Me and Carley are planning on buying a bottle of wine to share on the beach on my birthday. Should be a good time :)
Until the next adventure!
♥SEJ
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