My grandparents came down here to visit me a week ago, and they left yesterday. They brought all the birthday presents my mom and other family members got me, so it was like having a second birthday. Most of all I´ve been enjoying my new cds-- Postal service, death cab, ben folds, and ben lee. On Friday we left for the beach and stayed at this ( Read more... )

Nothing much new. My grandparents are coming to visit for a week on Wednesday, so I´ll be going to the beach with them this weekend. It will be nice to see them, but.. I don´t know... they´re just too snobby for Costa Rica. They won´t appreciate all the things I love about being here ( Read more... )

My ¨thing¨ with Oswaldo has now been downgraded to a fling. I actually don´t mind it so much. Its a long story, but in short, he was acting like an ass and I called him on it and then he felt bad... He´s a good guy, just not boyfriend material. We´re at a good place now though ( Read more... )

I think I got myself a mexican boyfriend. The important part is not that he´s Mexican, but that he speaks spanish, and pretty much only spanish, which puts an interesting twist on the relationship. I´m talking about Oswaldo, by the way. I know I´ve mentioned him before. Yet I´m strangely completely not nervous about any of it, which is not at ( Read more... )

Contrary to what I said in my last entry, I did go to the beach this weekend. Actually, within a couple hours of writing that last one my outlook completely changed. I made plans to go to the beach with 2 girls from my program, Melissa and Brandi, and Oswaldo called me and invited me to a party (although I couldn´t go). But he called ( Read more... )

I´ve had a sucky, boring week. I wanted more than anything to go to the beach this weekend. But now it looks like I´m not going because 1- people keep breaking off plans with me (very annoying), and 2- I´m getting sick. Again. I´m hungry but I can´t eat and all I want is some goddamn cambell´s vegertarian vegetable soup, but that doesn´t even ( Read more... )

I really really wanted to go to the beach this weekend, but for a bunch of tiny reasons, it didn´t happen. Instead, I went to Heredia ( a city an hour away from where I live) today with Margaret and 5 mexican guys that go to UCR. It was actually a little boring and most of the guys were pretty immature and annoying, but there was this one guy, ( Read more... )

I guess I´ve gotten into the swing of things for this semester. I´ve realized that I have a lot of free time and I have to figure out some ways in which I won´t end up feeling like a lazy bum. I´ve decided that I´m going to paint a lot while I´m here. My host mom paints and has a mini studio set up in the basement/garage, so its really ( Read more... )

Today is mother´s day! At least in Costa Rica it is. So call your mom and tell her happy mother´s day. She´ll appreciate it no matter what country you are in ( Read more... )

So it turns out things are not so great. Pretty shitty right now actually. The friday party was cancelled, as well as the hiking in the mountains. I´ve been in this house for way too long. I´ve been in a constant bad mood since last night, when I had yet another very emotional breaking-up-with-joe talk. To top it all off, my colitis has been ( Read more... )