El Pueblo

I had my last day of the spanish medical terminology class on Friday. We had a fiesta and everyoe brought in something and we played a few games. We all took pictures with our professor Juan Jose. I really enjoyed the class and wished secretly that it wasn't ending so soon. Our professor was great and always made the class interesting and fun. Later that afternoon a few of us went downtown to the artisan market and look around. Friday night we all decided to go to this place called El Pueblo which is a huge strip mall type place of bars and dance clubs. The group that wasnt in the medical part was leaving Saturday morning so we thought one more night to go out together was the best way to go. This place to say the least was very interesting and had people dressed up in very provocative outfits. Each dance club had a stage with a host and girls dressed up in skimpy outfits dancing all night. Ashley and I decided to go back to the place called Twister where we started out and outside waiting was a huge marching band or at least that's what they appeared to be. they had elaborate outfits with huge head-dress pieces and a part of the costume they wore on the shoulders which had big feathers that looked like what showgirls in Vegas wear. Ashley and I wanted to take pictures of it, but better yet we got to try on their costume pieces and take a picture wearing it! The kids were so nice and probably thought it was funny that we liked it so much. After our photo shoot I ended up meeting the coolest three guys. at first i thought that they were from the United States because they did not look like they were from Europe. It turns out though, that all three of them are from Barcelona, Spain. I was so excited to meet them because I absolutely loved Spain, so i was able to tell them all about the places I had been and where I studied. Also, one of the guys has a younger brother about my age who in fact plays tennis for Georgia Southern University. It is such a small world, and it keeps getting smaller and smaller when you meet people in other countries. Friday night was their first night in Costa Rica and they were traveling for about 20 days around the country. I was thrilled that most of the night I was able to practice my spanish with them. They are all really smart and have great jobs as well. One of them is a financial advisor/ planner, one works for Merril Lynch in London, and the other works for motorcross competitions. We might see them when we go to Jaco this Thursday for the surf championship. We all had a blast Friday night and didnt get home til very late, not caring that we had to be on a bus at 8am with our Tropical Diseases class to head to Puerto Viejo for the weekend. I really felt that the trip we made was pretty much pointless. We were supposed to go to a snake farm, but we never did. We were out in the middle of no man's land and stayed in the middle of the rainforest at a hotel. Prior to arriving at the hotel, we drove around to look at the banana plantations and learned a little bit about how they are run. many of the workers of these plantations are very prone to getting infected with Malaria or Dengue. two good things did come out of this trip though: 1.I was able to have wifi at our hotel, and 2. I was able to save a trip to the hospital because the teachers of our class who are physicians checked me out and finally diagnosed me with Bronchitis. Thankfully, if the cough syrrum doesnt work, then they will bring me an antibiotic to class Tuesday. There were tons of insects flying around, which i did not like the slightest bit. We got back to San Jose Sunday afternoon around 3 and I actually was glad to be back because it wasnt muggy or hot and we would be back in our house. Ashley and I decided to watch a few movies on tv, and Design Star on HGTV. The weekend was very relaxing, but not the best one that I have had here. I'm getting very excited for Emily to get here on Saturday so our adventure can begin! Hasta pronto....