Home Again

I had a great weekend in Samara, but have sinced returned to rainy and windy Monteverde with a terrible ear infection. I visited the local clinic today and spent over an hour with the doctor going over my medical history (from mono to jaw surgery, he took a comprehensive history and just stared in awe at me from behind his desk). Anyways, after missing most of the school day, he prescribed some ear drops and pain meds, but I´m heading back tomorrow to pick up some antibiotics. I returned home from the clinic to find the front wall of the house missing. Yuri had mentioned something about ¨la pared¨ before I left this morning, but my limited spanish coupled with my comprimised hearing left me slightly confused. I didn´t realize, la pared (the wall) of the house was being torn down today. Apparently, we´re having an addition put on the house. Thankfully, the pain meds made me sleepy and I was able to take a nap despite constant jackhammering.
A new student will be staying with us for a few weeks starting Wednesday. I actually think the addition on the house will be her bedroom. I hope...otherwise, I´ll be having nightly shared-bed-sleepovers with strangers again.
Anyways, Samara was beautiful. It´s a relatively small and quaint beach town with a good mix of tourists and locals. We found good restaurants and a memorable dance club, Tuti Fruity, at which to spend our evenings. About 20 of us rented two houses for $5/night which sounded great until the ¨landlord¨ suggested that we bring our backpacks with us where ever we go, because the house tends to get robbed almost every weekend. Though I appreciated his candidness, I wasn´t so excited about carrying all of my belongings with me to the beach, restaurants, club, etc. In the end, we left our things (minus ipods, cameras, epipens, etc) in the house and they remained undisturbed the entire weekend. I spent most of the day on the beach and ate fruit and ice cream sundaes for lunch everyday...all in all, a great weekend.
Heading to the Caribbean coast on Saturday and then to Panama on Monday. I may pass as a Tica after all of this beach time.

Hola ola (¨Hello wave¨...that´s all we´ve been saying since the beach...) Hope you too find some sun soon.

Kat

A word about viewing the photos; I think you have to ¨subscribe¨to the site to have access to the album. I haven´t loaded any new ones, but I hope to after I return from Panama. It takes about 8 minutes/photo so I have to be in a patient mood. Salud.