Fiestas de Brasilito

Thursday last week started the fiestas in Brasilito and they kept on until Sunday. We went everyday to see the bulls, eat, meet people, dance, and to see the tope (this time 54 horses that danced through Brasilito). Every village has festivals like this twice a year, and honestly it's always kind of the same thing, but it's also always fun. It took me a couple of festivals to get the whole bullthing, but now I find it just as entertaining as the ticos do.

Saturday I got invited to go out on a katamarantour on a boat that a friend works on. The weather was perfect (surprise) and the tour took us to a beach where we did snorkling. The visibility was quite bad, but there were still a lot of things to see. We then went back to Playa Potrero (where we had started) with the sunset behind us. I took some pictures that I will upload the next time I put on my computer.

(I was going to go out diving but then the boat got full for the day so I'm going some other day instead)

Very hard day at school

Didn't wake up by the alarm today so I woke up at 7:30 instead... I got ready without any rush and was then ready to go out and wait for a bus at 10. Just to be sure I texted Yailyn if there were any, and luckely she answered me that classes ends at 11 today just before the bus came. Imagine if I would have gone all the way there (it takes like one hour) to just say hi and then go home again with the schoolbus. Or better yet, get there when the bus already left.

So then it was just to go home again. Instead I will probably go to the beach to work on my tan. And go to yoga. Good plan.

Different valentinesday

I woke up too early to be healthy to go to school, went to some classes but mostly just talked to people. I get to know new persons each and every day. Me like :)

I came home, made myself ready and fell asleep for about an hour. Then Hellen came home and we went to the fiestas that are in Brasilito from today and until sunday. It started off with bulls and then around 10 or 11 (I wouldn't know because I never check the time) it was a dance in the place where the bulls usually run. It was called "el baile de polvo" as the dust was flying everywhere and we all were dusty all over afterwards.

I danced ( almost without resting) with different guys until it was time to go home at 1. Since I haven't danced since before christmas I had so much fun and I can't wait until tomorrow when the next dance is.

First open water dive

Wednesday I went to the divingcenter again early in the morning, this time to do my first open water dive. It was an amazing feeling and it didn't actually feel bad or wrong in any kind of way, it just felt so right. Me and my instructor made two dives, whereof the deepest one to 12 meters for 41 minutes.

On Saturday we're going out again, this time to Las Catalinas where we might see sharks (crossing my fingers). And after that and some more teori I already have my Padi open water license. Weyhoo!

Still vacations :)

I went up superearly to go to school and just as I thought we didn't have any classes. But it was fun to see everybody again and I had a nice day anyway.
When I came home I fell asleep but luckely woke up in time to go to gymnastics.

Tomorrow there are for sure no classes so I will instead do the first day of the diving certificate course! I'm sososo excited!

Surfsurfsurf

Today I went with Patti and some of her friends to Playa Grande to surf! It was my first time surfing so I can honestly say that I sucked. During my two hours in the water though I think I must have learned something. If not, atleast I had fun and got to know some new people.

When I came home I ironed my school uniform and took a looooong shower. Tomorrow I have to go up at 4:45 to get to school in time. Not because we actually have lessons. Just because I have to buy a new t-shirt for the school uniform. So what day do we actually start? Nobody knows.

Yoga on SUP

Yesterday in the morning I tried Yoga on a stand up paddleboard on Playa Dante. It's doing yoga on a big and quite stabile surfboard on water. The view we had was over the beach so it was lovely, there was no wind at all, and everything was just so perfect. In the beginning of the class we got into the water and on the paddleboards and then we paddeled until we got to a place protected from wind and waves. We did the yoga there for about one hour, and then paddeled back to the beach.

If you ever have the chance to try it, you absolutely should. I wasn't sure when I woke up but I'm so happy I finally went.

School, gymnastics, monkeypoop and yoga

Yesterday I went to school with Hellen and Laura to matriculate me. It took a while as everybody has to do that every year and it seemed like everybody had chosen this day to do it.

Later I went to the gym for the gymnasticclasses. It's really different to train only thin matts as equipment in a building without walls. But it definitely works and it's fun.

After the class I waited for Patti that was teaching a different class afterwards. So I sat on the playground and saw how a family of monkeys came closer and closer. In the end they were going to swing from a tree in front of me to the tree above me. So while they were swinging from branch to branch I was about one meter away from them. Then I was going to take a photo with my crappy cellphonecamera which made one of the monkeys think that I was standing too close. It then started pooping which I'm happy I noticed because otherwise that poop would have been in my hair the rest of the night.

When Patti was done we went to monkey bar in Flamingo where she teaches yoga. You can't really compare yoga here to yoga in Sweden, we had a beautiful view over the beach and and the harbour. Absolutely lovely.

I came home, learned how to make tortillas, took a shower and then watched a soccergame with my hostfamily and some friends. It was between Costa Rica and Panamá so everybody was extremely excited. Hahaha Hellens reaction to Costa Ricas second goal, so cool! :)

Sueciaaa tjalalalala

Watching the game between Sweden and Argentina. GO SWEDEEEN!!

Last days of vacations

Today at about 11 I got on the bus to Tamarindo to go to be with Yailyn and Yulissa. On the bus I met Kevin so lukily I didn't have to go all the way alone. I got off and had to wait for Yailyn for a while because she hadn't even gotten on the bus yet. When she came we strolled around in Tamarindo for a while, went to Subway, the beach, mandarina, and so on until Yulissa came. Then yailyn had to go to work so Yuli and me went to the beach. After about one hour we see Yailyn, a kid (that Yailyn was babysitting) and Kevin and his friends walking towards us on the beach and together with them we then went up to Vista Villas to chill at the pool. The view from there is amazing and you only have to buy something to drink to get to use the pool. When we go to Tamarindo we always go there. We stayed there until the sunset and then took the bus home.

Tomorrow school officially starts, but nobody is going before monday so I still have vacations. Or fake vacations as Vali says. Haha.

Santa María de dota- coffee and tope

Just came home after a long trip in the car from Santa María de Dota. I've been there all weekend together with my hostsister and her friends. Santa María de Dota is a really small town where everybody (and then I really mean everybody) live off coffee. We were there to see "el tope" with 1200 horses and owners passing through the town, but as one of the friends of my hostsister works with coffee, we also had a tour in the coffeefactory. You may think that the process from the fruit to the toasted coffeebean ready to be prepared to drink is easy, but nope, it was actually quite complicated.

It was a cool, but extremely cold weekend. In the middle of the day it was reeeaally sunny and warm, but after the sunset it was terribly cold. Not to compare to Sweden, but here the houses aren't built for cold weather. So I was wearing like three sweathers. All of the time.