First few days... Thought One.

If it wasn't for Wendy and Bernal's daughter Stefany, I would have a much harder time doing things around here. Wendy, Bernal and Stefany are the people I am living with. They are great people and have been helping me out greatly. Wendy and Bernal are very busy all of the time and Stefany is waiting to hear from a highly regarded psychologist in Costa Rica to setup a job interview. It's been tough for Stephany because, she doesn't have a job at this time but it has given her time to explore the city and get me familiar with my town and the surrounding areas. 

If anyone wants to know my address, it's 300 meters West of the pink bar, and we are the two story green house on the left. Yep that's my address. 

Anyways, we've been driving around the town and just walking around getting to know everything. We went up to el Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo and it was pouring rain and extremely foggy so we couldn't really see anything but it was real cool none-the-less. I'll be hitting that up again soon.

Driving here is crazy. People pass semi's around blind turns, over solid yellow lines and just don't care. It's a way of life. Stefany told me that she got through drivers-ed. by bringing cookies for the driving test. The instructor passed her on the spot. Cookies=Drivers license. 

Also, I'm looked at a bunch and whenever I want to buy something, it always cost double. Sometimes when I speak spanish, the clerk will bring it down to normal price. There's a good incentive to learn Spanish. Also, the locals are surprised at how fast I' am at learning Spanish. They're real stoked about it, me too. 

Anyways, there's more but I'll leave you with these final thoughts:

Roosters, Cows and Ducks outside of the bedroom window really suck in the morning. 

My mattress is harder than sleeping on the floor. Also, the wind blows so hard some nights that the picture next to my bed got knocked off the wall.

They do have damn good Sushi here. (Thank God!)

People literally live with 4 rusted sheet metal walls, a roof, and a dirt floor. That's it. 

I've seen the neighbor kid beat the crap out of his dog. That's not that cool.

And I just saw a fat venomis catepillar crawling on the window blinds. I hear if you touch it, it's like having a sever burn sensation. Everything is poisonous here. 

There's always something new down here. Later.