An uneventful day on the 28th of May

Today was a pretty dry day where nothing really happened. It was kind of boring, but at the same time, not the worst day. I was able to make some phone calls, and get to school early. The bus ride is becoming a lot more relaxed and I’m not constantly looking out the window for my bus stop. The walk to school is getting a lot more enjoyable and seeing the city is becoming a lot more pleasant. I am noticing the mountains and the clouds, and how the buildings contrast with the background and create almost a storybook picture. I never thought that I would say this when I first got here, but this is a pretty beautiful city…Even with all of the poverty and decay, it is still very beautiful. When we got to school we paid off the bus ticket for Manuel Antonio and headed off to the calle central to find a restaurant to have lunch at. After walking for about ten minutes, we decided to go to calle 2 and walk our way back up to the school. We ended up at the “Sultan” which was extremely weird. First walking in, there was no one there but the owner at a table. We sat down and he gave us a menu that looked more like a drink menu than anything else. He stood over us like a creeper while we looked at the menu and didn’t say a word. Kayla ordered the Batido fresa (strawberry smoothie) but they didn’t have any. So I decided to get a diet Coke, which again they didn’t have. So then I decided on Coca Cola, which they still didn’t have. Finally I settled on a Pepsi…in a glass bottle. I ordered the spaghetti volagnaise which was not at all like I expected. The spaghetti was sautéed so it was kind of crunchy and the sauce was extremely weird tasting as well. I can’t even explain it but I can tell you that I was given 2 pieces of white wonder bread to soak it up…The meal was a bad choice. We got caught in the rain again, but it wasn’t as bad as it usually is. By Costa Rican standards, it didn’t even rain at all (hahaha). The class was long and kind of dragged on today but we ended the hard studying kind of early and just talked about going to the beach and the class. We got assigned homework that requires us to see el Museo de Oro Precolombiano and el Museo Numismática in downtown San José. That should be pretty fun. I am meeting up with Kayla at the school at 9h00am and then we will walk down to the museum from Intensa. Then we will have lunch with Tammy, have class, meet up with Tammy, take a taxi to la Coca-Cola, and then take a bus down to el Parque Manuel Antonio! It’ll be nice to have a vacation (haha). Going to be at the beach/in the rainforest from Friday to late Sunday night (Monday in Rhode Island) so I won’t have my computer or internet…going to need to write my journal entry on paper for once =P