So I haven't written anything on live journal in almost a year, but I think I'm going to start again. For those of you who haven't heard, I've decided to take a semester off from college and travel around latin america instead. I'm going with a friend of mine, Lindsay, from C'ville and we're going to leave in about 2 weeks. We'll start in Buenos ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in the U.S ( Read more... )

Tomorrow: leave costa rica for Miami, florida
Tuesday: leave florida for Virginia
Dec. 18th: leave Virgina for Germany
Dec. 19th: go to belgium with my family
dec. 24th: back to germany

If I´m lucky, in January I might end up staying in the same country for a whole week at a time. I guess I shouldn´t be complaining, but its a little overwhemling.

Its been a while since I´ve updated... A lot has happened. Its been fun. I don´t want to leave Costa Rica ( Read more... )

My mom is here! We´re staying at a super nice hotel and I´m skipping two days of classes so we can go on a trip to a volcano this week. Its nice to have some time with just me and her ( Read more... )

I´m leaving Costa Rica in a month. I´m gonna enjoy the time I have left here, but I´m ready to go ( Read more... )

I went to a town called monte verde last weekend. For those who don´t know, monte verde means ¨Green Mountain¨, which is funny because Vermont also means green mountain. And what do you know, they both have a lot of green mountains. But instead of snow, monte verde has rainforests with monkeys and giant tarantulas and huge weird looking insects ( Read more... )

I´ve had a lot on my mind lately... I just found out that Rebecca is going to stay in Costa Rica for another semester and that idea seems very tempting to me. I´m trying to weigh the good and bad aspects and I just come up with the same problem I always have: There are too many places (throughout the world) that I want to be. I feel like I´ve ( Read more... )

Soooo much to write about now. I went to the Carribean beach (Cahuita) this weekend, skipping my thursday class to have a huge 5 day weekend (theres no classes today because of some costa rican holiday). So I left thursday with rebecca and the guys (Rebecca´s neighbor/boyfriend Esteban, Esteban´s younger brother Andreas, and Rebecca´s roomate ( Read more... )

I haven´t posted in a while cuz theres not too much new going on here. I´ve had more schoolwork lately, but I´ve also just been really really lazy. But I will put an end to that. I think I´m going to join a gym ( Read more... )