Saturday night celebrating Halloween at the house next to school
A thusday at my house, getting ready to go out
Riding the bus back from San Jose to Puntarenas...we had a little party of our own, ha it was soo funny!
The church that we went to visit on our way back from San Jose, this is where the Virgin was believed to be seen and where millions of people come every Aug 2nd.
So time is going by incredibly fast...I now only have about a month and a half before I head back to the states, damn! (at the same time is nice though, cause I do want to see my family and friends)...actually it was a month and a half when I started writing this but its now exactly a month and 2 days...
It feels like we havent done too much in the past few weeks. Towards the middle of October, it rained a lot so the roads were floated which meant we couldnt really go anywhere...
A couple of weeks ago we had a field trip with my Latin American cultures class. About 20 of us went to San Jose friday October 24th, stayed the night and came back on saturday. As soon as we got there we headed towards the National Theater. It was pretty nice, and well kept... the inside was full of art and so were the cealings. From there we went to the National Museum where we did more walking to see some really old things that told the history of Costa Rica.
We all stayed at a little Bed and Breakfast that night. Some people decided to go to a performance at the theater and others decided to stay at the hotel and wait till the rest of them got back (which is what I did). That night we played some cards and king's cup (which has become one of the favortie games here) and eventually headed to a place called "El Pueblo". We werent there too long before we decided to head back and call it a night...I thought it was a little too intense and being one of the only tourists there didnt feel that great.
Saturday morning our teacher picked us up in the little mini bus and took us to his house. By the way, the teacher's name is Arturo, he is also the one that took us to the Isla de Venado for the weekend at the beggining of the semester. He is pretty much one of the best teachers I've had...Anyway, he and his wife made us tons of food for breakfast and we just hung out by his house for a couple of hours. It was actually really nice being there for a while though because some of us were throwing a football around in the street (it was a gated community so it felt like we were back in the states for a little, no bars on windows so it felt totally safe) Anyway we were throwing a football around so it really just seemed like a sunday, it felt like we should have had a BBQ and hung out with family and friends the entire day...BUT that was short lived! We cleaned up and started heading to our next destination which was a Church called "Basilica de los Angeles"
The chuch white, big and a little intimidating...I walked to this one spot where it is believed that the Virgin appeared there and they turned that one spot into a fountain that has Holy water. I thought it was interesting how much faith some of these people had because Arturo was telling us that on August 2nd about I dont remember how many million people come to this church and ask or thank the Virgin for whatever it may be thats going on with their lives. They get there and then fill water botles with the water to take it home and use (I 'm not sure for what).
Anyway, what I thought was really cool was the fact that I walked inside the church cause I felt like it had been forever since the last time I was at any church...As soon as I stepped in I was totally overwhelmed with this feeling inside me, I dont know how to explain it but all I could go was almost start crying...it was the weirdest, strongest feeling so I just sat there for a little while and prayed...something I felt was needed...
Oh, one more thing I found super interesting about this place was the fact that people were walking on their knees from the door to the altar as some type of sacrifice...
Okay, so the weekend after that it was Halloween...people dont celebrate Halloween here so all the students that are here in Costa Rica (from Heredia, and San Ramon, and Puntarenas) went to this one open place in San Ramon. It was SUPER pretty...it was really green and there was a creek flowing by. We didnt have class that friday (nobody did) So everyone went to this one place like around noon and we stayed there till like 10pm. By the time we got back in to the Punt it was passed midnight.
That was friday...on saturday I went to this beach called Caldera with my roomate and some other guys. People like going to this beach pretty often because its pretty good for surfing....Saturday night there was a party at the house thats next door to the school and we just hung out for a while...
The week went by super fast like usual doing a lot of nothing but reading, eating ice cream (we have been doing that kinda often, they sell it everywhere), going to class for 3 hours a day and just hanging out!
Mmm...this past weekend we went to Monteverde and went on the Zip line but I'll talk about that more on the next blog cause its getting late and I'm kinda tired of writing...
Good night!
It feels like we havent done too much in the past few weeks. Towards the middle of October, it rained a lot so the roads were floated which meant we couldnt really go anywhere...
A couple of weeks ago we had a field trip with my Latin American cultures class. About 20 of us went to San Jose friday October 24th, stayed the night and came back on saturday. As soon as we got there we headed towards the National Theater. It was pretty nice, and well kept... the inside was full of art and so were the cealings. From there we went to the National Museum where we did more walking to see some really old things that told the history of Costa Rica.
We all stayed at a little Bed and Breakfast that night. Some people decided to go to a performance at the theater and others decided to stay at the hotel and wait till the rest of them got back (which is what I did). That night we played some cards and king's cup (which has become one of the favortie games here) and eventually headed to a place called "El Pueblo". We werent there too long before we decided to head back and call it a night...I thought it was a little too intense and being one of the only tourists there didnt feel that great.
Saturday morning our teacher picked us up in the little mini bus and took us to his house. By the way, the teacher's name is Arturo, he is also the one that took us to the Isla de Venado for the weekend at the beggining of the semester. He is pretty much one of the best teachers I've had...Anyway, he and his wife made us tons of food for breakfast and we just hung out by his house for a couple of hours. It was actually really nice being there for a while though because some of us were throwing a football around in the street (it was a gated community so it felt like we were back in the states for a little, no bars on windows so it felt totally safe) Anyway we were throwing a football around so it really just seemed like a sunday, it felt like we should have had a BBQ and hung out with family and friends the entire day...BUT that was short lived! We cleaned up and started heading to our next destination which was a Church called "Basilica de los Angeles"
The chuch white, big and a little intimidating...I walked to this one spot where it is believed that the Virgin appeared there and they turned that one spot into a fountain that has Holy water. I thought it was interesting how much faith some of these people had because Arturo was telling us that on August 2nd about I dont remember how many million people come to this church and ask or thank the Virgin for whatever it may be thats going on with their lives. They get there and then fill water botles with the water to take it home and use (I 'm not sure for what).
Anyway, what I thought was really cool was the fact that I walked inside the church cause I felt like it had been forever since the last time I was at any church...As soon as I stepped in I was totally overwhelmed with this feeling inside me, I dont know how to explain it but all I could go was almost start crying...it was the weirdest, strongest feeling so I just sat there for a little while and prayed...something I felt was needed...
Oh, one more thing I found super interesting about this place was the fact that people were walking on their knees from the door to the altar as some type of sacrifice...
Okay, so the weekend after that it was Halloween...people dont celebrate Halloween here so all the students that are here in Costa Rica (from Heredia, and San Ramon, and Puntarenas) went to this one open place in San Ramon. It was SUPER pretty...it was really green and there was a creek flowing by. We didnt have class that friday (nobody did) So everyone went to this one place like around noon and we stayed there till like 10pm. By the time we got back in to the Punt it was passed midnight.
That was friday...on saturday I went to this beach called Caldera with my roomate and some other guys. People like going to this beach pretty often because its pretty good for surfing....Saturday night there was a party at the house thats next door to the school and we just hung out for a while...
The week went by super fast like usual doing a lot of nothing but reading, eating ice cream (we have been doing that kinda often, they sell it everywhere), going to class for 3 hours a day and just hanging out!
Mmm...this past weekend we went to Monteverde and went on the Zip line but I'll talk about that more on the next blog cause its getting late and I'm kinda tired of writing...
Good night!
