'Camping' and more!!!

So Since posting about my new bike... I got my tire fixed SWEET!!! Then three days later it was flat again :-( so I forked out 3 whole dollars to buy a new one!!! (just the inner)... and hopefully my tires now remain inflated...
Last week was pretty casual... Went by so quickly... I'm am going to this dance class at uni for fun and a little exercise (most US kids are actually taking this prac dance class for uni credit... would you believe!!!) and so on tues we had a dance exam!! Was pretty funny being part of huge bunch of gringos (foreigners) trying to salsa it up... but i feel that my partner and I did a reasonably successful job??? I guess we will see with time... or my partner will... doesn't really matter for me!!!

WEDNESDAY oh my goodness... so it was Puntarenas day... a day where they remember the wrongful? killing of an ex president... anyway They have parades all day from about 9 in the morn to about 3 in the avo... our uni is right on the road that the parades where and so ALL day we had hardcore drumming ragging through the uni... I live very close to uni so there was no reprieve over lunch time either!! very very intense!! and when the real noise stopped my head kept 'hearing' the drums so it was a pretty intense day!!! Meet some nice ticas (costa rican girls) though so maybe some local friends???

FRIDAY... Surfing...was so flippin exhausted that it wasn't hugely successful but still was a good day...

SATURDAY... Camping!!! So Erik, Colleen, Nathan and I decided that we would go on a camping adventure with the church that we have been going to... we didn't really know where we were going (miramar) or what the deal was but we decided to go... every tico we talked to told us that Miramar was a cold place so we though it is hard for us to imagine cold at the moment we decided to play it safe and take pants and jerseys... (turns out it wasn't actually that cold and we could have really saved some bag space and not looked so ridiculous lol)... we got there and found we were camping on a farm... but tents never got set up which confused us slightly... but we have been told so many times to be 'tranquilo' (basically a way to say just chill and go with it) here in Costa Rica that we just said nothing and pretended we knew what was going on...

We went to some pools in the avo and hung out there for quite a while... the pools had a deadly slide with some crazy turns that doubled back on themselves so you went crashing into the next turn... I was very careful not to build up too much speed... but Erik is still sore from his sliding experiences...

So we get back, have a service... we have to speak in front in spanish about dreams in front of fluent speakers... then had dinner before playing a hilarious game of pictionary in spanish... My team went something like this... Someone draws something... Ruth knows what it is but only in english... so she has to act out the word for her other team mates so they can guess it in spanish... My impersonation of a vacuum cleaner was a real sight to behold!!!

Bedtime... Colleen and I got lucky and got to sleep in the farmhouse lounge... we share a single mattress so I was very careful not to toss and turn as I usually do lol... As we are waiting to sleep we notice some extremely big red ants climbing up the wall near our heads so every time the owner of the house wasn't looking we would whip out our jandels and kill as many as possible... must of worked cos they certainly stayed away at night... phew...

The boys were not as lucky and had to sleep on a porch... lots of farm noises in the night so they didn't sleep too soundly...

Sunday day we hung round the farm and swam some more before heading home... Sunday night we got a sweet tub of amazing ice cream and chilled watching a movie...

MONDAY: So in the evening my host mum fried some green platanos and they were amazing... ate a ton of them and then she made tortillas with cheese which, when eaten with beans, are pretty much my favourite food beside ice cream... so I had already eaten heaps when suddenly a whole plate of rice and meat was in front of me... my tea!!! Crickey it was hard to get it down but I didn't want to be rude so... I was extremely full afterward... so so so full... (I hope I don't get fat here... I am excercising but... sooooooooo many carbs.....)

TUESDAY: I discovered there is a group that swim daily in the sea so today i joined them for the 1st time .(got work off all that dinner)... I had to tow this red plastic thing so any boats could see me lol but it was a pretty good workout... def will be joining the crew again!!
That is pretty much my life at the moment... Next week we are off to Panama so I'm super excited about that!!!