Yet another useless post!
Check this out if you are into that sort of thing.
Duty calls!
The next one will be so filled to the brim with content, you will not even know what to think!
Vamos a la playa! A mi me gusta bailar!
Que bate que bate el chocolate!
Later!
I am alive!
The game last night went splendidly and my friends and I did not fall prey to the droves of football crazies that paraded through the streets with, what some might call a "$h1+l0ad!", of cops. Saprisa, my and my mother's favored team won with a score of three-nil against La Liga, the team that calls Alajuela--my hometown--home. On another, somewhat related note, somehow the president of La Liga, who also happens to own most of the rest of Alajuela, has invited whomever wishes to from our group to come and watch a practice sometime next week. Even though they are not really my team, I feel I owe it to my adoring fans to go and report back on how a professional football team in Costa Rica practices. I also hope to wear my Saprisa jersey there and give em some guff for losing so bad in el Clasico... which my father says is a bad idea. What do you think?
Next weekend is the class trip to Limon and somewhere else involving a archaeological site or somesuch nonsense. Long live free, pre-planned vacations though!
Once I get the means, I will post some real pictures up here, but for now enjoy the wonderful wanderings and photography of Joseph, a fellow Tico-in-training.
Until next time-—live life free!
I hope you are enjoying life and all that jazz; I am cruising along nicely here. The group of students from Washington is going home tomorrow so I have been busy hanging out with the select few students of that heritage that deserve my attention. A few of my friends played at the Lion's club last night, so I went out with them and danced the night away. Of course, I was completely shunned by all whom I asked to dance with me, even the table of Costa Rican women who constantly stared at me for the rest of the night... but I survive yet.
Spanish classes are going wonderfully, and after only three weeks I already feel relatively proficient in my understanding of speech and writings. I listened to my mom and my friend Jazmyne talk for a good amount of time the other day and hardly lost track of what was going on. That is, until my brother brought out his collection of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and we began to become immersed in a life that I recall from my days at Shinders.
This weekend is el Clasico, which is the football (soccer) game between San Jose and Alajuela. Apparently it is very dangerous for people to be wearing either jersey after the game because droves of bloodthirsty fans of the opposing team will beat them until they feel the victim has learned a lesson. Despite these cautions, I look forward to the event immensely.
I can hardly believe it has already been a month. Semana Santa (Holy Week) is coming up in the first week of April, and though my plans to go to Cuba have fallen through, I still plan on spending a week on a beach somewhere enjoying the tropical climate. At some point I will find out if my traveling companions will allow me the use of their camera in order to illustrate a bit more about my trip so far, but at the moment just satisfy yourself knowing that I will attempt to collect all the photos of every person for your personal viewing pleasure at a later date.
Assuming, of course, that I actually come back. It is nice to hear from those of you who have said something, and it is also nice to hear that those of you who have not are not really my friends.
:P
¡Pura Vida!
I hope you all enjoyed my poem last week. It was painstaking and a difficult labor to perform, but I feel the results were worth it. You people keep clamoring for pictures, so here you go:
Well, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So I close out my longest entry ever with...
What?! You didn't say pictures of my trip! Be more specific next time!
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
Costa Rica is sweet,
and I bet you wish you were here too!
Each morning at dawn
I snooze while the sun doth rise;
no matter how "late" I sleep
by six in the morn I open my eyes!
After a quick shower and breakfast with my mom,
it is off to school I go,
where my brain is filled with words
that make my head go to and fro!
Some days I have other classes
taking place in the afternoon,
but so far they are much more simple
and I do not feel like quite so much of a buffoon!
I look forward to the weekend;
this one past was mucho fun:
we went to the beach
and I was sad when it was done!
I played Backgammon with some rastafarians
and fell into the ocean;
I got second degree burns on my shoulders
(on which my mom put some lotion)!
I think these verses are neato
and I sure hope you do as well,
but at the moment I must go meet a Tico,
for he somehow thinks me swell!
It has already been three weeks
and I know not where the time goes;
here is hoping I have more adventures,
where time goes not fast, but rather slows!
Keep it real,
keep it fresh,
I shall see you in a jiffy,
perhaps with some tanned flesh...?
:)
