This weekend ended up being pretty fun, I got to see atleast one of my teams win. GO Hawks! As for the rest of my teams, steelers, chelsea, it was a pretty disapointing weekend. On Saturday I was under the mistaken assumption that the Iowa game started at noon, so when I checked in the morning and found out it was on at 7 my time I had a whole empty day ahead of me. So Luke and I decided to check out the waterfall just outside of town. It cost about $15 total a person for us to get out to the waterfall and pay the admission fee, and after 417 steps down the side of a canyon we ended up at the most beautiful place I have seen since I have been here. Luke took some pictures with his digital camera so I should be able to upload some pictures soon. The waterfall is around 75 feet tall and the water is just an otherworldly blue, its colder then hell though, so we only spent a few minutes in the water and the rest of the time trying to avoid hypothermia.
Later on Saturday Luke and I were at his house to watch the Iowa Penn state game, and right around the middle of the second half his host dad invited us to go to a party with him and his friends. Well he needed us to drive him to where it was because he wasnt able to at that point, but thats a minor detail. So Luke and I got in the truck and headed over to the party. Jaime´s freind owns a farm and the party was being thrown because they killed a pig that day, or maybe they killed the pig for the party. Its a chicken and the egg paradox, but anyway when we got there everyone was pretty much tanked and standing around a big fire with a pot on it full of bubbling oil and pig parts.
The rest of the party goers wasted no time in getting Luke and I in the mood for incredibly hot fried pork by giving us liberal shots of casike (its a sugar cane alchohol, similar to rum but not aged). I wouldnt recommend it to anyone wanting to remember the rest of their night, but i guess the intense burning sensation in my stomach helped prepare me for the pork. After the necessary rounds of casike Luke and I were given a plate heaped with freshly fried pork (skin, fat, ribs, something that resembled a pork chop, leg bone) and we got to enjoy our pork while watching the rest of the Iowa football game. I will spare you the details about the rest of the night, but Luke and I ended up back in town safely.
On Sunday Luke, Fresnell, and I went to the river for awhile and jumped off the rocks again, and we even got some sunshine for a few minutes. Fresnell ended up getting a job at a resort about 45 minutes outside of Fortuna so I am pretty worried about what Ill be able to do/ who I will be able to hang out with after Luke leaves on monday. I am starting to feel really lonely here and he hasnt even left yet, I mean we dont hang out all the time, but hes the only person I can fully express my self with here, I dont have the requisite Spanish to really Talk to anyone else. The police say that the next two months are busy with American tourists though so maybe Ill just have to settle for temporary freinds from now on. I dont know at this point it seems like the next two months are going to be really long and lonely, but hopefully Im wrong about that, only time will tell. It seems like the years of my life have been consistently flying by faster and faster as I get older, but I guess it only takes being away from familiar faces and comfortable places to really make the days creep by.
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Wow Calvin! I would say that you have good case of homesickness. That is okay. I have been in that postion myself. I spent 14 months of my life...at aobut our age in Iwakuni, Japan...I had plenty of those moments.
ReplyDeleteThe waterfall sounds great. I am glad you got to go there. I guess you have not got to go up to look at the volcano yet. That should be an awsome experience too.
Andy sent me his itenary for coming to Costa Rica and returning to Chicago. I am sure you and he will have a ball. You will be checked out on the area by than and can help he see things that regualr tourist would not see.
You take care of yourself. I have you in my thoughts and prayers.
Love - Papaw
In reference to putting your headdown and doing it...as a camp counselor I used to tell my kids to stretch an imaginary line across the room, that line is your whole long life, and the 1/4inch is the time you are at camp...or in your case in Costa Rica. (I used this a couple years ago with Nana when she was lamenting her recovery from foot surgery...)
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I realized this fall is that you are an E. Rememeber the Myers-Briggs stuff in AZ to understand your personality? We had a counselor who had the Valley Singers figure out their personality types at retreat. She explained what all the letters mean. One set of letters is I or E, Introvert or Extrovert--but it is not How you interact the I and E is how you get your ENERGY do you need time`to yourself to refuel, and go out in the world and be who you are or do you need to be around other people and gather energy from your time with them so you can go out into the world and be who you are. You, my son, are an E. Not that you don't enjoy your time alone, you do, but you get your "fuel" from people...I hope that you can figure out how to connect either shortterm or longterm with people. Consider sorting out Lulu, you need that interaction. LOVE YOU! Mom
Calvin: Don't "spare us the details," we love the details. And, we're sure you will find new people to hang out with, you always do, Mr. Party Animal. Have a great day & thanks for the great blog updates. Love, Aunt Margie and Uncle Mark
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