Lunes
30 juli 21:07
2 days, 1 writing
Yesterday I didn’t wrote anything, I was to tired of
the weekend and had to get up very early today for school.
But yesterday was a very good day in a different way
as other good days. I finally skyped with my mother and my brother and with a
friend from waterpolo. Every week I will be going to the same restaurant to
upload my blog, check facebook and skype with some people. That restaurant will
be my hotspot!
Yesterday I spent the day with sitting in the
restaurant for quite long and walking around Orotina with Ruth, we spoke about
a lot of very important things it felt so good, I’m glad to have such a good
best friend here in Costa Rica, makes a lot of things way easier.
Today was my first day of school, school is REALLY
different, I don’t know if its just my school but I have 2 days of real classes
and 3 days of turismo, classes and project about tourism all day. Today was all
day tourism. I did a presentation about the metamorphosis of a frog, in
Spanish! In the tourism class is half of my real class, the other half has
agro-culture and there’s a sort of ‘competition’ between agro-culture and
tourism about which is best. Next week I go on a other fieldtrip, this time
with the tourism class to Limon, the carribean of Costa Rica,(there were heavy
floadings there yesterday)! We are going to a national park and we go see stuff
about recycling, in which my school already is very good. Also there will be a
trip to Guanacaste, the province with the best beaches in October and I will be
going to Guanacaste and Isle Tortuga (pirates of the carribean!) with my IEC
and some other EF’ers.
Today I ate Rice & beans 3 times and I kinda like
it now! It Is just getting used to it and then it is quite good. Also my family
spoke about the fact that the police here sells marihuana and is kinda corrupt
and that in the school 100 metres away from my house got broken in last night,
that’s kinda scary!
Now I go sleep again, tomorrow I need to get up at
5:30 again, which will be my waking up time for the coming year… yeah change really
is hard, but it really is good aswell.
Martes 31 julio 2012 21:48
MOESSON!!
Today was not that special, but it was good! At school
I have no idea what is happening but apparently after biologica there were no
more classes because, before neither because there were no teacher I think. So
we went to play soccer in a indoor soccer field. I was lucky that I brought
some sport clothes because I should’ve played soccer in the afternoon anyways.
The soccer was great, we played 6 against 6. I think I played quite nice, I
made 3 goals but especially had a lot of fun with my classmates. But it do was
hella hot. After soccer we had lunch at school and after that I went home.
I went to Orotina later with the good thought of going
to the gym but I brought my laptop aswell because I had to sent some e-mails
and stuff. While walking to Orotina the moesson bursted lose. It was rain like
I have never seen before, after 5 minutes there were small rivers floading through
the streets and from the roofs there were waterfalls coming down, it was
amazing and awesome, to bad I arrived soaked at the restaurant. At the
restaurant I met Ruth and we drank coffee had lunch and I used the internet for
both important things and fun things like Facebook, also I changed my blog to
blogspot, because I think it is way better. Later we went to the park to see if
there were sloths, which my tourism teacher told me but there were not, only in
the dry season a very nice guy told us which we met at the park. We talked with
this guy for like 40 minutes, that was cool. In the evening I went to a house
nearby with my little host bro, and there they have really good internet!
I eat here almost no more meat, that’s a good thing,
but I do miss it! Now I’m going to sleep, tomorrow I got a soccer match (cinqo
cinqo) with my big brothers team, and we must win. I hope I can play with them
every week, that would be cool!
Mercielos 1 agusto
2012 22:37
A regular day?
I think today was my first regular day, that’s nice
because with regular days I can create a rhythm for myself and start living a
normal live here in Costa Rica.
In the morning I woke up and every time I wake up I
don’t know where I am. My hostmom starts talking Spanish to me and without concentration
I don’t understand I thing, I only heard ‘late’ and ‘taxi’ I figured out I was
late and had to go with taxi to school. I rushed to whole morning and when I
was finished I had 20 minutes left before the bus left, wicked. At school not
much happened. Went home at 4 watched some Olympic games.
Buenas!
Jueves 2 agusto 21:21
The black virgin of Cartago day
Today I didn’t had college because there was some sort
of holiday, the day that the black virgin of Cartago was discovered I think. I
wanted to go to the beach but I didn’t have permission, that was a pity but
because of that I could sleep long. Sleeping long didn’t really work out
because the neighbours have chickens and the male chickens who does
kukelekuuuuuu forgot the English name of that.. also there were lemons falling
on the roof and that made a lot of sound as well. I had some very weird dreams tonight, 1 of
them was about me being able to change into a alligator, chasing my neighbour
Arnoud and a very good friend Emma while I was being chased by the cops and my
waterpolo team, very weird.. I guess what the meaning of the dream is. My other
dream, was more important. I dreamed that I was back in Holland after 5 weeks
and my exchange had ended, me and my mom figured out only 5 weeks passed and
not 1 year, I wondered why I was sent back, called EF and wanted to come back
to Costa Rica. When I woke I realised I was still in Costa Rica, I was very
very happy I was still here. I think this dream really had a meaning and made
me think of my time here.
That was night time, during the day nothing really
happened I went to Orotina at 1 P.M. which gets pretty normal now because I
come in oro pretty much. I wanted to bring my latop but my waterbottle was
leaking in my bag and my laptop got a little wet aswell so I brought my laptop
back home to let it dry. In Orotina I practiced a little Spanish with Ruth, ate
some oreo’s drank a smoothie and watched people in the park. Also I had my
first encounter with the Costa Rican police, we were playing with a ball in the
park which wasn’t allowed, so the police told us not to +1 for the police.
Tomorrow I only have class in the morning so I
arranged a soccer game in the afternoon. I figured out that I’m actually not
that bad at soccer, because of my length I can make a lot of headers and also
people don’t expect my long legs which helps me to get the ball a lot, my shots
are still rubbish though.
3 agusto 2012 20:56
Second moesson, soaked again..
Today I had school till 11 because the teachers had
some kind of meeting, our teacher was tutoring other students so we sat outside
for 3,5 hours until we could enter the classroom, when we entered we didn’t do
anything.
During the loads of free time I discovered the school
has its own maripozarium (butterfly garden) and a RAINFOREST there are a few
tracks running through it, I took 1 for a while and it was very very nice. Also
I saw some more buildings which I didn’t visit but I will later. This school seems
more like a private school to me as an public one. At 2 I had to wait 3 hours
until I was going to play soccer with some guys from the 6th grade
so I went to the main chilling spot, laid down in the sun and fell lovely a
sleep, I wasn’t the only one. At 2 therwe was thunder and silence before the
storm and it was going to rain for sure so no soccer.
I went to the busstop and when I arrived the rain
broke loose, I could see the gutters changing into wild streams of water, I
love that! After half an hour waiting I figured out my wallet was still at
school so I had to walk 300 metres back, which caused me to be complety soaked
with water. A friend of mine found my wallet and kept it safe, very nice! At
school the dean told me I could ride with him to my house. At my house I
quickly grapped some money and went to Orotina in order to find to gym. At
Orotina I accidently walked into Ruth who was running. I bought some food
because I was reaaally hungry and after 2 breads I was kinda satisfied. She
searched with me for the gym but eventually a classmate pointed us out, and I
was closed. Ruth and I went to a fruitshop and bought some nice mango’s which
we ate at the entrance of a nice hotel. After that a walked home and chilled a
little bit with my bro and his friends.
22:35 Sabado 4 agusto
2012
La fiesta de Santa Domingo
Today was another Costa Rican holiday, the day of the
holy Sunday I think even though it is Saturday.. not very important anyways.
I slept long, till 10 a.m. that’s pretty long here
because without an alarm you wake up at 8 because of the heat. I had a
delicious pancake breakfast. I picked lemons from the garden and made some
delicious lemonade. During the day I watched some Olympics and didn’t really do
anything, I wanted to swim in the rivers but because it rained yesterday I was
to wild.
At 4 I went to Orotina to check out the festival which
my family said there would be. It was kinda lame in the beginning so I called
my family that they didn’t have to come, I was like to party scout.. I met up
with Ruth and when to a pandaria for
some food. The festival was at the church and there were like 5-6 food stands
but only 20 people. Ruth made me go into the church so we sat the whole miss
until 18:15 I thought I was horrible because I had to pretend I was Christian
because doing nothing would be rude as well, I even give some money when they
come with the money bags which I think is very very wrong because people come
to church to seek help or something and then they have to pay, that’s kinda
weird I think but I don’t know all about since it was my first time I really
went to church. After the miss ended I went to the pandaria again because the
church made me hungry, because it was after 6 I could pick 2 things and pay
only 0,80 euro’s! I ate a lot because I took the 2 biggest things and ate 1 of
Ruths as well.
In the park we met some former exchange students who
returned to Orotina for a holiday, and 1 new exchange student and his host
brother and sister. The seven of us went back to the festival and I was pretty
cool actually, now there were like 200-250 people and they were dancing to the
band and stuff and eating traditional Costa Rican food, the only thing is that
the average age was between 45 and 50 so it wasn’t that interesting. After 1
hour we went to the park and chilled there, we could still hear the music. The
Norwegian student told us he had seen a sloth as well so tomorrow I’m definitely
gonna look for it again! I went home pretty early because I forgot my key and I
didn’t want to sleep outside^^.
It was a fun second Saturday night and I made some new
friends!
This was the blog for this week, next week a new one!
But for now: buenas noches en tot ziens!
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