church, scorpions, cooking...

Every other Thursday at 3:30 is church. So after my host mom asked me if I go to church Thursday morning, I decided to ask her if I could come along. So me and ari and Arabella all walked to town to the small catholic church. It was a short simple ceremony and I actually was able to understand quite a bit of what he was saying, well enough words to get the gist. The church is very small and simple but still very beautiful. Afterwards we walked slowly backing chitchatting a bit with arabella.So thannn we gointo my room and there is a frog in there so we are trying to scare it out and arabella heard all the comotion so she came in with a broom handle laughing her head off but once again she saved the day. Ohh how I love her. Ari was nice enough to take some sweet pictures of arabella and I chasing the frog. Later that night was a bonfire. We brought out the guitar and the drum and the harmonica and sat there around the fire talking. Seco, the bartender even closed down the bar to come bringing other ticos. It was so fun and such a clear night.


So Friday once again was working on the composting toilet and class and studying and than we played phase ten and went to bed early cause we were all super excited for Saturday. What was Saturday? A tour of la iguana chocolate farm! Given by Jorge, one of my favorite ticos it started with a cocoa pod fruit thing, you should google it, and iill add pictures later. But its this huge co9lorful pod thingy that you open up and is full of these seed things that were wet and slimy and tasted pretty bitter. So they take those out and dry them and then dry them some more and then roast them and then we broke off all the schells and then ground up the cocoa beans into powder. After that we added some brown sugar and orange flavoring and ground it all together and compacted them into little cups and stuck them in the freezer. While they were in there we ate brownies and chocalate milk and talked about chocolate. It was the best morning ever. Than we ate our orange flavored choclates. They also have volunteers that help them and if I ever come back to costa rica that’s probably where ill look at first.

We were all so full of chocolate we just layed around and met the new couple who are both from Britain but live in LA. Ari and I also had an awesome convo with my host mom. She even said we talk way better as a team cause if one doesn’t know usually the other one does. It was soo fun and it felt so awesome like we actually knew something. After we got back from the river I talked to her again about Christmas and learning to cook and she said we have a busy last week. I am so excited. And we started that night with homemade tortillas which turned out pretty well if I do say so myself. After words we all headed to the bar where I got my usual. Two popi’s aka suckers and just hung out and practiced my Spanish with some of the locals.

It had been an awesome day and I get back to my room turn the light on and my friendly nightly bat was hanging on the ceiling that flew away. And than there was a spider on my pillow that I smashed with my water bottle and than the first scorpion I have ever seen was sitting on my wall. Ohh man I was so tempted to just give up and go home right than and there. I don’t think I could ever get used to all the bugs.