I have come to learn that I just... Love the Caribbean. I love the life, love "rasta." Though I could do without the self-meditating and drugs, I think theyve almost got it figured out. Things are slower, more relaxed. The culture here is completely different, they even have their own language thats like a mixture of English and Spanish and it just doesnt sound like anything ive heard before. It has a lot of Jamaican influence as well, its just the right mixture of all these different cultures to make their own and I have grown to really love it. Just one day at a time and it was such a refresher to be able to visit that side of the country again this past weekend.
It turned out to be a girls weekend, (which I was totally ok with) Monica, Kristen, her friend Santana and I all went to Puerto Viejo and had a lovely weekend (no pictures, forgot my camera DANG.). The rain hardly stopped... but for some reason I really didnt mind. It was just nice to have found this lovely piece of country. The rain really didnt stop us from doing much, we got to rent bikes for $6 for 24 hours... and they were really cool old fashion bikes that I wish I had at home and were a lot of fun to ride. It was so much fun, you could ride them anywhere and unlike Bocas... there were actual places to go on them instead of that one part! I really enjoyed everyones company, especially the quiet times we had to sit with some coffee and read.
There werent many failures or mishaps on this trip... Usually if we have someone who knows what theyre doing things dont usually go wrong. If Monica werent with us we would be so lost. But when swimming in the ocean, both Kristen and I got stung by something... Mine lasted the entire day, on the inside of my elbow it looked like three little welts and the whole area was red and stung for the whole day. No idea what that was, but it was slightly uncomfortable, and more water made it almost worse. I was also in this next one... While everyone else was swimming, I wondered off a little ways and went in sand and I sunk all the way to my ankles, I went to run just to get out of it and stepped in a bunch of really sharp rocks and got several painful cuts on the bottom of my one foot making it pretty uncomfortable to walk. Today at school I used most of my time trying not to limp around like a dork because of a nicely placed cut.
Over all this weekend was pretty top notch... But I am really really looking forward to going to Managua, Nicaragua this weekend and I WILL remember my camera this time and take lots and lots and lots of cool pictures. My time is running out here pretty fast. But I am trying not to already think of things that I am going to miss about this country and I havent even left yet! It seems to be cut so short... But then again I have days where Im excited and then sad to be leaving. Less than 4 weeks, I cant believe it.
God grant me peace.....
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