I have pretty much omitted this entire subject from my journal, mostly because it's kind of complicated and I generally like to avoid political controversy. However, I feel like I owe the topic some attention ( Read more... )

This weekend, a group of 8 of us travelled to Puerto Viejo, a rather Jamaican-feeling beach town on the Atlantic coast, often referred to as the Caribbean region. I didn't get any pictures because I forgot to recharge my batteries and didn't have any flourescent green mushrooms handy. If you don't know what that means, please don't ask me to ( Read more... )

Foreword: Sorry this update is a little overdue. As mentioned throughout this post, I have been battling a head cold/flu--or as they call it here, "gripe" (pronounced GREE-pay) which always sounds completely overdramatic to me-- which is generally messing with my head and overall coherence. One might say that Lexicon Luther has stabbed me in the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made a vow to work really hard this week on homework and various projects, but I have a head cold that is making concentration incredibly difficult... so I don't feel so bad about posting this instead of reading ( Read more... )

So something has occurred that I suppose merits an update: I moved ( Read more... )

I've fallen behind a bit in updating, so my thoughts are going to be a bit scattered here ( Read more... )

Friday at noon, four of us hopped a bus to Manzanillo, a tiny little beach town on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, just south of Puerto Viejo. Apparently I forgot to bring spare batteries for my camera, so I have a smattering of pictures from my camera, some from Mike's, some from Missy's... you get the idea. I'll try to insert them into this ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday marked 1 month since I've been in Costa Rica!!! Crazy ( Read more... )

So it's now Wednesday, and this weekend update is officially well overdue ( Read more... )

Clearly this has been long overdue. I don't really know how else to efficiently describe everything that happens around me on a daily basis, so I'm going to give you a run-down of a typical day.

5:30/6:00a.m. -- Wake Up
My wake up time varies, but I don't really like to get up much later than this. My host parents are usually up and moving pretty ( Read more... )