Day 35- Hard to Say Goodbye

Today was one of my roomie's final day in Costa Rica with us.  She is going to be spending the next week or so traveling around with her family.  To top that off, my final was today for advanced class too.  It was just a day full of endings, and endings are hard to deal with sometimes.  I know that when she gets wifi, she is going to be reading this, so this post is completely for her, because so many of my great memories are completely due to her.
According to her(this is paraphrasing), "Sam, I am always the responsible one at home, like you, so for this whole trip we are going to be different.  We are going to have as much fun as we can.  And we are going to get a little bit crazy."  The first Monday here, she talked me into going to Cuartel, which was not even in the same zip code as my comfort zone at the time. (My personal bubble was forced to be non-existent for a night)  The funny stories that we will always have, but should probably not be posted due to content, are too numerous to count.  Miss JRC, you made this trip for me, I love you, and I will forever be grateful that you were my roomie for this experience.  Even if I didn't return the email you sent before we got here :D <3

Day 34- Out with a Bang

To indicate how great of a night it was, I will provide you with some of the dialogue that you could have heard between the three roomies and their sister tica:


"You think he's creepy too?....Yeah....Should we tell her that?...No, she's picky, so leave it alone."


"Are you girls American?.....Sí, somos de los Estados Unidos....Do you speak English?....Sí hablamos inglés."


"I love a guy with a faux hawk!...Sweety, he has a real mohawk."


Ahhhhh....what a great last night in San José for my roomie :)


But this morning, we were all moving, well a bit sloooooowwww.  Which was okay since it was a religious holiday in which thousands of ticos walked to Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles on a religious pilgrimage.  The walk from San José where most of us live would have been around 5 hours or 22 kilometers.  The few members from my program that went came back very happy but also sun burnt and very tired.  


Today I cooked dinner for the family, and since it was a special occasion, we had to go grocery shopping.  Which was a challenge.  But the chicken parm turned out nicely, as did my chocolate cheese cake.  Not the best things that I have ever made, but pretty darn good.  My mama tica had been nervous because apparently the last time one of her exchange students made something, it was awful.  That was not the case tonight, and now I have to get studying for my test in the morning. 

Day 33- Inversion

This morning was my final oral presentation for my advanced class.  I guess it went well, but we will have to wait and see.  But, only one more day of advanced, gracias a dios.  Finally I will have the chance to sleep in a bit, although whether or not I will be able to is debatable.  Tonight may get a little crazy because it is the last night in Costa Rica for mi compañera, which is making me very, very sad.  I have made so many of my memories here with her and it is breaking my heart that she has to leave early.  But as this trip has taught me, I will enjoy every last minute that she is here, and make even more memories.  We are also planning on cooking for the family tomorrow night and playing some games with them.  Well, I am going to cook and the roomies have volunteered to be helpers :).  My time here continues to get shorter and the surrealism is setting in again.  This isn't real life.  Well it is, but it can't be my normal everyday life for much longer.  Soon I have to leave and go back to my real life, which I am both looking forward to and dreading to no end.  It is a unique feeling that unless you have experienced it for yourself, I don't really think that I can explain it.

Day 32- Not Fit For Print

Well, our Monday night officially made up for the last Thursday night that we had.  The escapades of last night will remain unpublished to protect the privacy of all individuals involved.  I am sure that if you corner one of us we will spill the beans, but as I am a long way from home, you are just going to have to wait.  I do want to say, to all those out there who have never experienced it, it is not advisable to stay out until 2:30 on a school night.  For anyone who wants to do some quick math, I got up this morning at 6:15, which would equal my total time asleep to be less than or equal to not nearly enough.  However, the shower gods decided to spare me this morning and I got a warm shower, which can make any day a good day in CR.  And it could be that I am getting a bit loopy from the sleep deprivation, but today was awesome.  I got a lot accomplished, my advanced class is almost finished, we are reading things that are closer to our time period in my literature class and overall the day was very good.  But now I am blogging to procrastinate doing my oral presentation that is due in less than 12 hours.  So I should probably sign off for today so my world does not lose its peachy glow.  Oh and I will get to be home in 11 days!  Which is both exciting and sad at the same time.

Day 31- 2 Week Notice

Monday's suck no matter where in the world you are.  There is just something about the start of a new week that, while it should have so much promise and should be thrilling because you never know what is going to happen, just makes you want to pull the covers back over your head and go to sleep.  This is nothing other than my loathing of Mondays talking.  Today was also a difficult day, due to the fact that all the teachers just seemed to realize that we are only going to be in their clutches for a few short days more.  So tonight, directly before righting this, I wrote two pages of composition, a poem,  a paper for my literature class, and read 10 pages of Don Quijote.  Sounds fun huh?  I really want to enjoy my last weeks here, and hopefully I will get to do just that when I only have my literature class left.
Of course Monday nights= Quartel nights, which in turn equal no sleep.  Dance now, sleep later has become my new motto :). Besides, I deserve some fun after all that homework.  Even if that fun is going to make tomorrow morning come way too soon. :D

Day 30- Luxe

Today we are recovering from the epicness that was last night.  Or this morning...whichever way you would like to think about it.  Luxe is a very upscale bar near the nicest neighborhoods in San José.  The music was loud and the lights were bright.  A fun time was had by all the roomies present, as well as our sister tica and her friends.  But we may have overdone it a bit, since we didn't get back to the house until 4:30 am.  But today is Sunday, so other than homework we have nothing to do.  And I'm not sure any of us are actually doing homework right now.  I obviously am not :)
We had a great late lunch at the local pizza place, which was delicious as usual.  Now we just have to get ready for, well basically finals week, this coming week of school.  It might get a bit rough because I have a quiz, an oral presentation, and a test for my advanced class.  And it is one of my roomies final week in the house with us.  So when you put those two things together, I highly doubt that there will be much sleep to be had at the gray house on the corner.

Day 29- Plan B

The original plan for today was to go explore downtown San José.  But it was raining all day, and we didn't want to spend the day drenched and miserable, so we changed our plans.  I wish there was a way to send all of this rain home, because it is scheduled to rain for the next three or four days here.  Our Plan B turned out to be going to another mall with our sister tica and shopping for a few hours before watching the new Batman movie.  Which was awesome.  As were the heels that I found :)  Five inch heels will always make me smile, especially when we are going clubbing later tonight.  I really shouldn't have talked myself out of packing at least one pair, but oh well, I love the new pair that are now all mine.  Right now we are all getting ready to go out to a swanky club that our sister tica wants to visit, called Luxe.  It smells like a salon in the house, because hair is being straightened, polish is being applied, and the beautification process is commencing.  I will have to write tomorrow about our night at Luxe :)