An outdated blog...

21 July, 2006

I wrote this the other night and couldn't post it until today... Here you go...

The travel books warned me that electricity was "erratic" and to be prepared with a flashlight. Well, this morning I found out theat the power was out at the hostel when I couldn't get hot water in my shower. I had a good laugh when I learned the reason for which we had no power... someone had stolen the power line running to the hostel! Hahaha! Appearantly the power lines are made f bronze, and so people steal them just for the metal. Crazy, huh?

So it's now night and there is still no electricity here. It makes for a pretty cool atmosphere with candles set up in every room. It's really peaceful, too, 'cause there are fewer people here and everyone went to bed early with nothing to do.

So I decided this morning to stay in the city one more night because I wasn't going to be done with stuff at the school until late. I just barely decided that I am going to hit a beach on the Pacific side tomorrow morning and stay in a town called Jacó. I'll have to be back Sunday night for more stuff at the school on Monday morning, so it will just be a nice weekend vacation. I can't wait to see outside of the city!

The climate here is really fascinating. The mornings are really hot and sunny, and then each afternoon clouds roll in, thunder strikes, and San Jose gets soaked in rain. That's how it happened today... I got off the bus heading towards the school, there was no rain... then there was a loud crack of thunder, and before I knew it I was completely soaked! That lasted for just about 15 minutes and all went calm again. Well, I got my shower today after all.