Tamarindo!

Hello guys -

Before I tell you about how awesome my weekend was, I want to tell you that on my last busride home my camera got stollen! I lost all of my awesome pictures from this whole week and I am pretty bitter about it, but at least I can tell you about all of the good things that happened this weekend! I am not sure if I will buy another camera while I am here, the rumor is that it is pretty expensive! Oh well, things happen!

As for Tamarindo, I left Thursday afternoon and got there at around 10. In my group of friends we have someone who had been to this beach before so we knew exactly which hostel we were going to stay it. It was called "La oveja negra" ("The Black Sheep"). When we walked in it was awesome to see the different culture that exists there. There were tons of surfer guys walking around with their light hair and perfect bodies, as a girl, it was a pretty awesome sight. Later I found out that the majority of them were Argentinian. The place was really colorful and retro looking. It was cool, there was air conditioning, which is rare down here for the price we paid! That first night, some of us went to this Regae club. It was pretty fun, really hot because it was basicly outside, but fun!

The first full day we spent at the beach and walking around the town and going into all of the shops. I ended up buying a purse and and dress! The beach was awesome! It was very pretty and the waves weren't crazy. There also weren't any rocks, so it was a good beach for swimming. In Montezuma it was hard to swim there. That night we stayed in and cooked our own meal. It was cool because we all helped out in some way, it was also a way to save money and make some friends with the other guests at the hostel. While we were cooking, we talked to a guy who was making Mate, an Argentine tea, and another group of boys making homemade pizza. It was fun to swap food.

We didn't only meet Argentinians while we were here. We met a group of Brasilians as well. We actually ended up hanging out with them frequently. A few of us ended up renting surf boards for $10 and the Brasilian guys taught us how to surf! It was SO much fun! I definitely want to do it more often. It is cool to say that I learned how to surf in Costa Rica! We were out in the water for a really long time, and even though I had 85 spf on, I got a lot of sun! I am definitely a few shades darker! I also forgot to take off my wrist band from the club, so I have a really bad tan line from where the wrist band was! Oh well, it is fading slightly!

One cool thing about this town, and really about Costa Rica in general, is that the smoothies are cheap! They are not in short supply of fruit, so they are always fresh and wonderful tasting! I also learned that plums are expensive here, I found that kind of odd.

One thing I really like about Costa Rica is that I have been able to meet people from all over the world. Of course I have met a lot of people from different places in the touristy areas, but I now live with a student from Germany. She is very nice, she got here today and it is fun to talk to her because she tells me all about Germany and the places she has been, which is all over Europe! It is great! We also met someone from Austrailia and Israel. It is just fun! Also, even though this person lives in the United States, it is still cool that I know someone from Alaska now! She offered to travel around with me if I go up there, and I really hope I get the chance to do that someday! I have always wanted to go there!

Ok, that is all. We will see if I can get any pictures from this trip....as you know, my pictures were all lost from this week. It is too bad, I had some cool pictures with my surf board!

Until next time!