life in the jungle

(Sorry this post has no pictures. I wrote this two days ago and I just wanted to get it up. More to come soon.)

Well my dear little bloggity boo, I am afraid our relationship is coming to an end! At this point, I don’t really know how much I have to offer you. Recap my days, ah it’s the same ol’! It is hot. I spend the days in my bathing suit, milling between the food and the kitchen. Still loving Jillian Michaels work out videos and endless supplies of bananas and pineapple. Spending free time watching movies (almost done with The Lord of the Rings extended versions, about 11 hours total) and napping… Counting down the last days of this alternate universe I’m living in!

We turned in our final papers for research class on… Monday? Tuesday? All the days run together now. Anyway, I got the best grade I have ever gotten on a college paper! So. Good news. I am getting the best grade in a class I get absolutely no college credit for. Ha, it’s funny how our system works.

This past Wednesday, seven other girls and I went to a local daycare to play games with the kids and hand out bags of candy and ice cream. It was a Fiesta de Navidad! Aka, an excuse for us to hang out with adorable little children for a few hours before we leave this country. Costa Ricans have so much spirit, these kids are hilarious to say the least.

Yesterday, we gardened in the morning. And by gardening, again, they mean carrying massive piles of dead branches and leaves to a different part of campus. This was something we all hated and thought was really STUPID. Apparently it was to prevent a fire around the chicken coop. Because we just got 20 chickens the other day! Of course, right as we are leaving. Another thing they are working on on campus right now is an addition to the dorm building. Because next semester they are expecting 5-10 more students than there were this semester. This could get very… sticky. Well, I’ll let you read all about it when we do our semester-end evaluations. So much potential here if they just executed it a little better.

Last night, there was a student versus staff soccer game in town. I went to watch and take pictures. Today, we are painting a mural in the living room, hopefully. We proposed at the beginning of the semester that the dorms needed more color, and after much deliberation they decided we could paint a panel in the living room. And we are just getting to it now, as we leave the center. Tico time, I’m telling you.

This weekend I am going to the beach with three other girls for one last hurrah.

And other than that my friends… In six days, I will prepare for reentry into America, and say goodbye to Costa Rica. PURA FREAKING VIDA!