Day 9, Sunday May 18, 2008

Had breakfast (so sick of fruit btw) and then we all went to the market to get shit (me - Aloe Vera, burned!, Gatorade and Pepsi Light, not Diet Pepsi, no such thing in CR). At breakfast everyone gto a laugh when they finally saw how well i had done with my sunscreen, and the finger prints on my back in white. It was nice.
After the market we tracked up to school where Jamieson got his backpack rom a few days ago, and we all checked our e-mails and chatted with the kids living there. I saw Daniela had been talking shit on facebook about the Celitics and saw game 7 was tonight at 130 on ABC and the Spurs game 7 would be on Monday at 630 on ESPN.
Then the whole clan went to the Blue Monkey for lunch before half of them headed to la playa and the other half headed back to the bonfire pit.
After lunch Dale and I went to four different bars to find one playing the Celtics game, and he bought 2 Costa Rican cigars in anticipation, though he isn't a Celtics fan. A victory is just a great reason to smoke up.
Nobody had ABC so I was pissed off and went on my own to school to see if they were watching it there. I walked by the Blue Moneky and decided to give it one more shot in case they were watching Forrest Gump at school. Sure enough, there was KG. and there was Lebron.

So I settled in with two beers and my victory Cuban cigar sitting beside me while i watched Paul Pierce give Lebron and early flight back to Cleveland for vacation and I lit up my cigar in celebration. Hell yeah!
Meanwhile it was pouring like crazy, causing Dale never to show up, and me to have to run all the way to school in the rain with everything in the plastic bag that was holding my cigar cutter thing.
I got to school and a few people were watching Forrest Gump and I joined Jamieson in the back to finish my cigar and tell him about my temporary victory over Daniela, and he told me about the really bad motorcycle accident right outside of the school that happened a few hours earlier.
There has been no break in teh rain, but it stooped pouring for a few minutes right before dark and we hurried out of school towards our path. It was a rough walk as the rain picked up more and more the closer we got. we were going down a sketchy path where it would be easy to trip or slip, and that lead to steep slippery stairs and a slippery hill, both of which i had to walk sideways on because i was wearing flip flops. we made it home soaked as hell and took our showers and ate a very American dinner. Chopped in half hot dogs on bread with salami and mustard, and rice on the side to stop it from being too American. Jamieson made a burrito out of the deal. And then we set off to our journals, and now i am done for now.
Oh! and Dale and i gave our presents to the host mom when we got back from lunch. i dunno if she liked the presents themselves, she didn't open them in front of us and i never saw them again, but she was very touched and happy when we gave her the bags.
Ok, now I'm done for the night i think. i hope. My burnt back is killing me.