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Cass's Gap Year
hey everyone, sorry i didn't update before but the website wasnt working when we first got back from Limon and i tried like 5 times and it just didnt wanta work so you had to wait! .. that and writing right after we got back wasn't even something i wanted to do, you see Limon was not all that its cracked up to be. and that was an interesting choice of a discriptive word because "cracked up" is definitely one way to describe it.
I'll start with everything good about it though because there definitely was good, i dont think ill ever go back there, but there was some good. WE didnt actually stay in limon, but Cahuita, whcih was alot more tranquilo..haha honestly it was so incredibly beautiful and hopefully you can all see it soon because i sent my camera memory card to mamita as soon as we got back!! but beauty was probably the only thing that limon had going for it.. ive never been in water so warm that even I had no trouble going in.. and anyone who knows me knows that is a huge feat because i am a baby when it comes to the water. We met some people from the international school in costa rica who were really cool. They were from all over the world but almost all could speak perfect english, pretty good spanish, and whatever other languages they had acquired somehow throughout their lives. We went dancing with them one night and it was soooo much fun =) ... well the dancing part, later that night was a different story but ill get to that. Also got some really cheap jewelry/bag/sunglasses in puerto viejo that was pretty cool. I probably could have gotten um for less but im a terrible haggler, i just feel kinda guilty but it was cool seeing them making the stuff like right there half the time. plus marley plays everywhere constantly on the carribean side.. which pretty much was one of my favorite parts of the whole trip to the coast =)
...now for why Limon=Hell.. some of the girls are actually contemplating getting matching Limon Sucks tattoos.. hahaa .. leave it to these girls to make a joke out of everything ..LOVE them.. ok so all was going well the first couple days i mean everyone was exghausted after a 9 hour bus ride and then being in the heat alot but we were in paradise and happy and all together =) .. we did the whole shopping in puerto viejo, laid on the beach, and were (finally!) getting to go to Limon for Carnival... we got there and it turns out all the parades and stuff are actually this weekend .. not the weekend we were there. Kind of bummed but stuff was still there so it was cool, we did a lot of shopping and i bought my mamita a present for her birthday and another one for Bryan (hermano) for his which is coming up ... the guys there are all really sketchy and i was glad we were in a big group. We still got a lot of attention though (being gringas) esp my friend maggie who is so pretty and decided to wear a strapless dress into Limon but shes tough and really funny and it didnt phase her.. i dont know how she does it its amazing they actually like ssssss at you .. like youre a cat.. its kind of funny actually hahaa but yeah we dealt with that but it was still cool and then we went to eat at this resturant that is the oldest building in limon. (Not sounding like hell yet right?! .. just wait) ok so we go back to the hotel having danced a little and ready to be home.. that night we went to the bar in Cahuita and met up with the international kids to go dancing and talked to them alot which was cool (i even talked to this one kid in spanish for a long time cause my spanish was better than his english!! hell yea!) .. all was great until we got back to the hotel around like 1.. and caught our first glimpse of hell. This girl who was in my room was feeling not so great and was getting sick all over the room i heard a couple other people werent feeling well either and thought "that sucks" but didnt really think much of it cause it was really late and we were all exghausted.. my room reaked and me and the other girl in my room (not sick) slept in our director Sam's room with her.. or that was the plan but i dont think Sam got to sleep at all. We woke up in the morning and found out that 5 of the girls were sick and throwing up and were going to the clinic. the girl in my room had been the first to start and hadnt stopped all night.. Sam went with them to the clinic and that was the last we saw of her for a looooong time.. then another girl started getting sick and she went to the clinic too (driven by the semi scary guys that owned the hotel) we heard nothing for a long time.. and then made the mistake of going into our room (which now smelled like something out of a horror film or just an indescribable amount of bad) It was pouring and for a long time we had no idea what was going on.. the guys who worked there that had been charmingly carribean before were absolutly no help now sitting in the corner and pointing at some imaginary thing every time i asked them a question. They ended up being in the clinic for 10 hours and we had to stay on the Coast an extra day while they recuperated .. it turns out half our group had gotten salmonella in Limon !! =( the resturant we ate at is getting looked at by the gov't cause it was so many cases at once.. Everyone is ok now but it was really bad.. me and another girl who wasnt sick went out and got food and made everyone soup that night but they arent allowed to eat any meat or dairy for a week or anything carbonated either.. it was just not what we had wanted for our carribean vacation but everyone is safe and healthy now so that is awesome.. but i dont think well be going back there .. especially not during this trip..
on a brighter note were in our homestays the next cóuple of weeks and can really start working on our projects... me and lissie think we have enough money to do the roof, a mural, and maybe buy our school kitchen a refrigerator!! exciting stuff.. ill be back next weekend and give you more updates on that because i neeeeed to start doing stuff for the upcoming spring so im not just sitting around!! ok i love you all !!!! miss you lots
PS I SAW MONKEYS!!!!!!!!!! i could end the trip and be happy now, but i think my next thing i wanta see is a panther.. i reaaaaaally wanta see a panther
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