Wow, I'm really bad with keeping up with this blog. But I've been pretty busy and overwhelmed, so it's reasonable enough. Anyway, this past weekend we went to Monteverde. It was a breathtaking sight- a beautiful mountain range was visible everywhere you looked. The ride to Monteverde (the cloud forest) took around 6 hours but thank goodness the bus seats were comfortable. What's funny/weird is that to get from San Jose (where I currently am) to Monteverde, it's only 93 miles yet it took 6 hours to get there...That's because Costa Rica doesn't really believe in highways. The last few hours were full of winding roads barely wide enough to fit the bus we were in, it was actually pretty scary! On Saturday, we went ziplining in the forest. The tour guides were a lot of fun and it was such an amazing experience over all. The resort we stayed in was absolutely beautiful and the food was delicious (we had a buffet style meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner). Saturday night we went to a local discoteca and we had a lot of fun dancing! Our tour guides that morning just happened to be the dj's there haha. The next day, Sunday morning, it was raining so hard that we had to cancel our hike to the nature preserve where we would have been able to see thousands of different animals :( But it was too dangerous to try to drive there with the rain & wind.
Enough about that weekend..This weekend (Saturday & Sunday), we will be going to Arenal Volcano and La Fortuna. La Fortuna is the name of the town we are going to and it is also the name of a beautiful 200 foot long waterfall. We will be swimming there and I am so excited for that! Arenal Volcano is one of Costa Rica's active volcanoes and we will be staying in a beautiful 5 star resort that has a view of the volcano. There's a lot of cool tours that we can do once we're there (canyoning down the waterfall, visiting caves, kayaking, etc) but they are all wayy to expensive so unfortunately I will not be doing them. But, a bunch of people aren't doing them either so we're all just going to figure something out.
Tonight, Veritas Universidad (the university I go to here that is so conveniently close to my house) had their first party of the year. It was called CRASH and there was dancing, free food, & drinks. It was SO much fun. I had class from 6-8 today but our professor said that he would let us out by 7 so we could enjoy the party...In reality, he just didn't want to be in class either because he went to the party as well and the first thing he did was buy a beer..Haha. It's so weird to see how laid back everyone is here..I mean, it's not all the time that you see students and professors dancing and drinking together in the school's courtyard.
My classes are all going very well, I had my first class with Ticos this past Tuesday. Not gonna lie, I was pretty nervous for it but it turned out very well. The professor is pretty young and very friendly and upbeat. It's also a very interesting class (Aesthetic psychology) so we'll see how things go.
Well I am pretty tired, today was a long day. I only had one class (the 6-8 one) but I was out most of the day. I will try to update more often!
Pura Vida,
Angy :)
Beautiful view from my hotel room in Monteverde
omgggggg i'm glad you had fun !! i'm very very very happy for you !
ReplyDeletei've talked about you like 10 times. and its official that i'm going to push to study abroad. maybe costa rica.
muhahaha. i love it. please keep posting stuff !
gahhh you should most DEFINITELY study abroad. seriously, i can already tell its going to be the most amazing experience.. theres so much to see beyond the confines of the USA! love you!
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