Sorry... I've been slacking off

Anyways... so beginning back with last weekend. I started with a night on the beach in a small tourist town. I always imagined tourist towns in foreign countries would be crazy weternized, and not that there are quick a few more western esque things, really if you didn't know any Spanish, it may be quite difficult to get around. Costa Ricans practically all know some English it seems, at least at the younger ages. So its not a huge issue but still the town was still very much rooted in Costa Rican culture.

So beach night was fun, next day was surfing all day. I some how managed to get up on the first try which was the point where I really never came out of the water except to make a sand castle, which lasted all of an hour until a naked baby used it to play Godzilla. And then just to add insult to injury here, another kid had a miniature ATV and just ran over it even more.... AHHH

So after that we had dinner on the beach, and it was maybe $6 a meal roughly, so not bad, well if you order cheap, I could easily get up to near $15 if you went for the seafood. But that was a good dinner, sunset everything right there on the beach at a small hole in the wall resturant. And there was a homeless guy there too, how apparently was from New York and had lived in Costa Rica for 16 years.

That night was a little beach time and then we all went dancing, which was a blast just because I love to dance. But basically I was up on the stage doing my irish jig kinda dancing and Im pretty sure people were impressed, I hope. And then there were some swim races and I got a massive sunburn and am now peeling.

School is school. The idea of time down here is only strict on classes, everything else is like 30 minutes late, always. Food down here is fantastic. Im mastering finding the $4 lunch still and finally got rid of all of my travelers checks. Those things were impossible to get rid of. I went to 3 different banks until I could find someone to cash them out, and I had to go to the main national bank in San Jose. This bank is huge, its the tallest building in San Jose, and you walk in and its got all of the refreshing sights and sounds of a government run building. You can also imagine how slow and inefficent it was as well, but as I have learned Costa Rica faced no internal financial troubles during the hit to most the rest of the worlds economies. Basically they lost a bit in the tourism industry and some of the other exports such as bananas and pineapples, the more expensive of the fruits. But as for everything else they were fine. There banks I guess have essentially 0 risk but then also very small gains. But ya cashing these travelers checks took 3 days and over an hour of standing in lines and waiting at windows. So it was probably the worst experience of my life, I hate my banker.