Arrival: San Jose

I arrived in Costa Rica all in one piece! Everything is so surreal... I don't think I'll register that I'm actually here until tomorrow. Tomorrow everythings starts. But today I just met the people in the group (they're a pretty cool bunch). We walked around the city a bit, just taking in the sites. We came across this park where these men were playing some game they invented (they even had an official plaque issued by the government of Costa Rica). The game consisted of two paddles, three blocks, a tennis ball, and some metal pieces. The point of the game was to use the paddles to push the tennis ball to knock down the metal pieces on top of the blocks without knocking down the blocks.

Here is Franscisco, the inventor of this game (which name I have forgotten).

This is one of the girls in my group playing the game. I haven't learned names yet. (Tangent) I'm really bad at names. I can remember faces, but not names. It's quite embarassing sometimes....

Back to the topic. So today was just chill day. Tomorrow we start the real stuff. I hear we're gonna go out to the market tomorrow and research about different fruits and spices grown in Costa Rica. We're each gonna be assigned a different food. Guess what I have! Mango! My second favorite fruit. I hope we get to eat them.... At least just the fruit.

The group dynamics looks good so far. Everyone is either from the Midwest or East. I'm the one lonely soul from the South. Represent! Not. We're gonna be in real close quarters from now on, especially when we go hiking. Hope we still like each other at the end of this trip.

Grrr..... Have to wake up at either 6:30 or 7 am everyday.

I forgot bug spray and sun screen.....