Monteverde

Friday in class we watched a movie called Mar Aldentro (inside the sea). It was about euthanasia. For homework we were supposed to look up information about euthanasia and the different laws of it in different countries. We weren’t sure why our teacher had us do this or why we were even talking about the subject. The movie was apparently based on a true story of a man I n spain who wanted to end his life because living as a quadriplegic was not living to him. He was in an accident that caused him to break his neck and had been like that for 26 years. They took it to court but in the end they denied him the right to have assisted suicide. He ended up ending his life by drinking potassium cyanide in secret. We left for Monteverde(green mountain) around 1 in the afternoon. It took us about 5 hours by bus to get there. I really don’t know how the busy was able to drive up the mountain around the sharp corners in the dark. We stayed in this hotel about a 20min walk from the national reserve (the cloud forest). The hotel was called el hotel villa verde. It was a cool place to stay but it was really cold there. We had a fire made while we had dinners. The food actually was pretty good. I was able to take my first real hot shower without feeling guilty about how long it was since I left home. We didn’t have heat or air conditioning though. Saturday morning we were all up bright and early and went to this place to do different activities. Most of the people did the zipline through the forest, but im doing that when Emily comes down here so I decided to go horseback riding. I really enjoyed it. There was a small group of us that went, and went all through the forest on off trails. It was soo muddy that I was really glad I didn’t wear anything good. Of course I get the smaller horse to ride since I was the shortest one there. His name was Bronco, and he was def a stubborn one. He liked to be the leader and would try to bite another horse (tonka) when he would try to pass us. The trail was so beautiful and we got to take some cool pictures. I really enjoyed the experience. Afterwards we went back to eat lunch and then some of us decided to take a bus to the town to see what it was all about. There really wasnt much of anything; A few souvenir shops that had the same things. We were told to try the ice cream, because the town was founded by a group of Quakers back in the 40’s. they wanted a place to live and work without war and a simple life so they chose costa rica because they had just abolished their army shortly before that. The night was really relaxing and we were able to hang out with different people from the group so we could get to know each other better. There were some young kids that lived at the place we stayed at and they were obsessed with the song soulja boy and even knew the dance.