Music: Green Day – She
For once, I'm not completely exhausted as I write this. How odd.
Today was our last day of classes at UCR. We had to present the recipes for the foods we made last night, and then we read an article and had a debate over the pros and cons of vegetarianism. My half of the class got stuck on the anti-vegetarianism side, which sucked, because the article we read had absolutely no helpful information. So we just made up really ridiculous arguments, i.e. Costa Rica is a Catholic country, and since Jesus ate meat (see the story of the loaves and fishes), then so will we! Today was probably the best day as far as the snack they gave us: a little spiky red fruit called “mamon chino”. The seed-spitting contest we had was pretty epic, to say the least.
After class, I had a quick lunch of leftovers with Don Carlos (Dona M. was out giving a cultural discussion). A lot of people said goodbye to their families at lunch today, since we're supposedly only coming back on Monday long enough to get our suitcases, but I know Dona Melida is planning to have brunch, so I didn't get into goodbyes with Don C. Afterwards, I rode with Jen and her host mom to the Burger King at the edge of town, where 19 of us (Brittany is spending the weekend with her host family) crammed into a microbus to leave for Bahia Salinas. We stopped along the way at the prettiest overlook I think I've ever seen – on the top of a hill, looking out over a valley down to the Pacific coast.
We got to the hotel we're staying at, Ecoplaya, around 16:00, and we all had a snack (ham sandwiches with butter and cheese whiz. Weird, I know). We had 2 hours until dinner started, so Corin and I changed into our bathing suits and went down to the beach. There's this island about a kilometer off the coast, and I joked that we should swim to it. Well, we started wading out into the water, and it turns out you can practically walk to it! About halfway in between the island and the shore, I could still touch the sand with my head above water. If it hadn't been so late, I probably would have convinced Corin to walk/wade/swim all the way, but the sun goes down around 18:00 here, and we didn't want to be caught alone on that island in the dark. When we got back to the hotel, everyone was in the pool, so we hopped in with them for a bit, but after a while, Ashley and I got cold and went back to our rooms.
We all met for dinner at 16:30, and then afterwards went for a night walk on the beach. Alex had his flashlight with him so we could (kind of) see what we were walking on, but even so, Emily and Stephanie L. were completely terrified of stepping on the crabs that were everywhere. Of course, neither of them had anything to worry about, as it was inevitably me who ended up stepping on one. I don't think I killed it, because I'm pretty sure I didn't put much weight down before I felt it under my foot (I was barefoot at the time)... I hope not, anyway.
Now I'm laying in bed, watching Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley/Matthew MacFadyen version) in Spanish, and well, writing this. I'm out of things to say, and it just got to the part where Darcy proposes to Elizabeth at Rosings, so I'm going to leave off for now.
Pura Vida,
Sarah
New Words:
jerga slang
rocío dew
transgredir to transgress/to break
testarudo stubborn/pigheaded
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