Better late than never - Panama trip!

Now I finally took the time to post something about the Panama trip! Heh, just like more than a month later... But better late than never!

 

We had a wonderful dinner in a small restaurant the last night in Bocas del toro. None of us had brought a camera so I asked the ones at the table next to us to take a picture and send to me by e-mail. Miss this. 

 We went on a dolphin-tour. Didn't get any great picture cuz I was always too slow, but we had about three or four dolphins just ten meters away from the boats so it was really cool.

 

We spent a lot of hour in the bus there and back. So much fun though.

 

And when we got to Panama we spent a lot of time in boats instead. Fun but chilly.

 

Tired from the all night long busride. We went from San Jose (before that atleast I had a four hour bustrip from Nicoya) at about 11 in the evening I think and got to the border of Panama at 5:30, then we had to wait for a couple of hours until the border opened, so we got to the boat at 9:00 I think. Un pichazo de horas (hah Yulissa taught me that word today :P ).

 

We spent an afternoon on "Starfish beach" which is the home of a lot of big starfishes. So sad Bram's waterproof camera didn't work.Otherwise we would have had some awesome pictures from that place. With the starfishes. Well well, no matter if I have a picture or not I held a biiig starfish in my hand. So cool.

 

We bought bbq-meat on the street because we were soooo hungry before dinner.

 

Yum!

I absolutely loooved Bocas del toro, and would have loooved to spend more days there (especially as the trip was so long). Panama is a beautiful country and I hope I can return some day. I've gotten so close to the other exchange students so it actually doesn't matter what we do on these trips, we always have fun and we always have the time of our lives. Definitely friends for life.

Now, I don't even remember everything that happened in Panama so if you would like to know more, Bram wrote about it on his blog right after the trip. Press here to come to that post.

Pet

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Second time in a week that we find one of these  (superdangerous snake)in the garden. This one pet I really don't want to cuddle.

Just skyped with valentina for two hours, but now i have to sleep. Alamrm sounds in 5 hours and 30 minutes...

Dia del estudiante

Today in school it was "el día del estudiante" (students day) which was celebrated with no lessons, no schooluniforms and some activities. It was nice. My class had bought cake, ice-cream and a pinata so we went away from the activities for a while in the middle of the day to have a moment just the class itself. It was really cozy and funny because first we couldn't really find a way to get the pinata up and later we used the ropes as skipping-ropes. Haha, yes, it was fun.

 After school I went together with two girls in my class to Playa Tamarindo. We went to a pool there that has a beautiful view, ate at subway, and walked on the beach in the sunset. So, I had a really nice day, I like my new school, class and friends a lot. Now that I'm the only exchange student in my school (ok there's another one but he's not from EF and not in my class so i barely notice him) it's a lot easier to make friends, and of course to speak spanish all of the time too.

Only bad thing today; didn't celebrate the international hug an exchangestudent day properly. Well well, I can just do that some other day instead.

New schedule

Now when I'm back in school my schedule looks quite different from before. The bus leaves from Brasilito at 6 and arrives at school at 7. At 4:15 the last lesson ends and then the bus takes me back home.

I've put my alarm on 4:45 tomorrow, halleluja!

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Going to sleep now in order to wake up ready for school tomorrow. Tonight I've got some very special buddies keeping me company in my room. There is a huge caterpillar, a firefly, some ants, mosquitos, and probably one or two spiders. Maybe I should give them names. I'll do it tico-style. Meaning tomorrow. Goodnight!

Horsebackriding at Concha

Pic from Panama, realized that I haven't written anything about that delischious trip. Will do it tomorrow.

After lunch today I went to Playa Conchal. I really love that beach. Right now it is low season here in Costa Rica so I practically had it all for myself. After a while though a guy with horses came up and asked me if I wanted to go for a ride. I just answered that I didn't have any money with me, but so he said that it didn't matter and that he was going to go to the end of the beach and if I wanted to ride I could go with him there and then walk back. Of course I said yes. From the south tip of the beach I later walked for almost one hour to get all the way home. I never think of it as that far, but it always takes me a while to get to Conchal and back. I don't mind walking though, since I walk on the beach almost all the way it is actually really nice. The road part is really scary though because there is no pavement.

On Monday I will start school again so tomorrow we will go to Libreria to buy a schooluniform. I've had a couple of weeks of vacation now so I'm kind of looking forward to it. And I'm only going to go to school for one month, then in December the vacations begin and they last until February. Well, yes. As you can see I'm studying a lot here.

Happy halloween

Yesterday we went to a Halloweenparty! I didn't have any costume, and I had like 30 minutes to come up with something so I didn't really succeed that well. I was supposed to be a doll, but I didn't have any clothes for it so I just put on a lot of makeup. Don't know why I'm posing like a ballerina though...

The party was fun, and there were so many cool costumes! I must say that the costumes here are on a completely different level than the ones in Sweden. For example, one guy was a shower and an other guy was silver (though I was so sure he was an avatar). The point is though that here people really go in for it.

This morning when I woke up I found out that we had been robbed last night while we were at the party. They took a tv and the bike my hostfamily had lent me. Feeling a bit bad about that I walked to Playa Conchal where I spent a couple of hours in the sun and then went back home. When I came home I saw that my dad had written to me on facebook that some guy had called him to  say that I had forgotten my cellphone at the beach. I was so surprised because I hadn't even noticed that I was missing it. So I went to Hotel Brasilito where I picked it up.

Now I'm going to watch S09E03 of Greys Anatomy. Greys is the only serie I can't miss a single episode of. Just simply can't.