Two more roommates came last night; the third is being put
up in a hotel until her room is open in Carmen’s house. Since the date change with AIFS, there is
still a student in the room that she was supposed to have and this has happened
with about 8 other students in the program.
But the morning was bright and we headed to “orientation pt. 1”. There we met the other students and
Elizabeth, our new program director.
Enter slightly boring presentations on rules, safety, etc. and about an
hour later we were on our way to the first excursion. We bus toured San José downtown, where the
streets are curvy and jam-packed with people.
A small museum, El Museo de Oro, dedicated to the history of gold in
Costa Rica was the last activity before lunch.
And what a lunch it was. Hidden
on a corner of an obscure, at least to me, street, was this huge open air
restaurant with the most delicious food.
Four huge, delicious courses later (ps, tiraramisu was amazing there)
and our afternoon was complete. I
stopped and pulled out colones at the cajero automatico in Veritas ( 1000
colones is about 2 of our dollars). Then
my roomies and I headed home for the afternoon.
We agreed to meet up later in the evening at Los Professionales, a small
bar that happened to be on our way home.
Later that night, at Profes, the group decided to go to a dance club, El
Quartel which was closer to downtown San José.
The music was live, the place was packed and it was about 1 million
degrees inside. Needless to say, my
personal bubble was invaded a lot. But,
it was fun, and three very sweaty roommates and one sister tica got home around
1:30 am. Too bad we have to be up and to
Veritas at 8:30 in the morning, tomorrow.
Ahh the life of an adventurer J
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