I can't believe it..

Hey party people:D

I really can't believe that it's been almost 6 months!!! It's been almost 6 months since these pictures were taken, since we lived in the hostel, since we were studying spanish and exploring the new city of san jose...it's sooo weird to think about. 6 months is a long time!

I have about 2 weeks left in Costa Rica. Then the trip to Guate and Cuba, then a few small trips (my european tour;) and then I will be working home in Norway for about 2 months before I will be booking a one way ticket to España:D So a lot of exciting thigs in store for me, me like !!

Soooooo I'm really looking forward to a lot of things, and because of this it's not gonna be so sad for me to leave Costa Rica. I dont really think I will miss my job or san ramon actually. What I will miss the most is deffinatly the volunteers, and the life we've been living here together. And the country itself, it's without a doubt GORGEOUS. It really is a Costa Rica (Rich Coast) And just being able to take a weekend trip to the most beautiful places on earth is amaaazing!



I'm gonna miss tico time. Dont really think my boss in norway would be very happy of I continue my tico time practise at home. Here I start work at 8am and I usually leave my house around 8-8.15 or something..And if Im meeting up with someone I usually leave my house about 30min after we were supposed to meet. Just warning you guys ;)

I'm gonne miss being able to pick lemons and mangoes on my way to work.

I'm deffinatly gonna miss not having a maid to clean my room and wash and iron my clothes.

I'm gonna miss the Imperial (beer) that costs about 5 kr

Im gonna miss the COFFEEEE!!

the traveling

the nice and friendly people that sais buenos dias to you even though they dont know who the hell you are

the beaches

The greeeeeeness, the palmtrees, the nature in general


And of course I'm gonna miss my Therese sooo much..My gooooood it's incredible how good friends we've become during our stay here, it really would not have been the same without you:) But she's moving with me to Bracelona so it will be ok (right Teresita Walbergita??)

And there's a few things im not sure im gonna miss but that will deffinately be weird..like

it's gonna be weird to go to bed and not hear at least 20 dogs having something that resembles choir practise

to throw the toiletpaper in the toilet

to not being able to take a taxi anywhere for about 10-20 kr

not having people treat you like an alien in new, small places

to make my own food again

to speak norwegian again..

to watch tv without spanish subtitles

to not be foreign and therefore very interesting...

So yes! Nowa lot of things will be different, a lot of things will be difficult buuuut it will be a lot of fun also. Just picture me saying buenos dias to random people in norway or looking up a pine tree in the forest in Norway to see if there are any monkeys haahaha :D

I will neeever forget this experience tho..it's been very colorful and exotic!

Pura Vida for ever:D

Hollidaaaay :D

Waaay too long since I blogged last time, thanks, I know! But holliday is holliday. Now holliday is over so now I blog again!

Started the Ho to the liday in San Jose with my BFF and Izaac out and about in club oh. Dangerous place. You pay like 8.000 colones - ca 100 kr and you can drink as much as you want until the bar closes. No need to say it got messy and I lost my camera. No drama-i-got-robbed-story, I just lost it no idea where.


Woke up the next day VERY hung over at like 9am and at 10am we were on the buss on our way to Puerto Viejo on one of the most uncomfortable bussrides of my life. The buss was packed, the normal road was closed which meant 5h instead of 4h on a veeery turny road. Im surprised I didnt puke. Spendt saturday and sunday there, said goodbye to Sabine and chilled out with some cool people. Monday we went to heaven aka Bocas del Torro in Panama. It was a tough journey there as well. First a small local buss to the boarder, then a walk over a very unsecure bridge.

Then we took a taxi for about 1h and then a taxi boat. And then we did this for about a week:

Floating

More floating

Tanning

Chilling

Our home for the week, Casa Verde <3

One day we actually felt like we should leave the hostel area, the tubes and the music and go to one of the amazing beaches around us. So me and therese went with 3 guys we met at the hostel and went snorkelig on the way to the beach:



This corrall picture is actually taken right under the dock of our hostel...its sooo pretty:))

Probably the most amazing thing with this trip was the people. The surroundings helped a lot buut when you have you're own, live reggae band on your own dock it's pretty hard to do anything but be happy. We met sooo many nice people..our band from chile of course and people from argentina, australia, england, scotland, holland, usa, germany, israel etc etc. Love it!

Our room was like a music studio, the very first time we walked in there they were recording the Casa Verde song! You can here it here if you have facebook.

SO yes. Goood holliday.

Oh and the pictures are not mine, seeing how I lost my camera..so thanks to those who took these! You know who you are:)

Take care everyone and see you SOON :D

xxx

Exciiited!

Yes, I'm so excited. That I just can't hide it lalalaaa:)

This weekend is going to be soo good and the week after even better. Heading to san jose tomorrow to celebrate...well..life in general at a club with good friends and a lot of lady gaga music. Should be interesting;) And then it's off to Puerto Viejo Saturday! Sweeet beginning to my holliday week me thinks!

Then monday or sunday we will leave costa rica for a few days and soak up as much sun as possible in Panama. I will of course upload a lot of photos when I get back, but I feel like being very nice today so here is some tasters of what we will be finding in Bocas del Toro. Feel free to be jealous;)

It's an island community in a way so most of the transportation will be by taxi boats. Aaaand Therese was there a few months ago and know people with their own private island...crazyness. Snorkling, coctails, beach, turquis water and suuuun here I cooome :D

Oh and work is imrpoving as well...Think we might be able to clean that place up a bit and make the whole work process a bit more efficient, thanks to my gringo (american) pals! One of them came over for a meeting last week and took some pictures so here is what I'm working with people!
The pics are taken inside the building where I usually pack and sort my newspapers..

Maybe now it's a bit easier to understand why I feel my job is a bit difficult at times and why I'm soooo looking forward to my holliday..?!

I also did a presentation not so long ago in a school..so there is a lot of variety to my job which is good

but on a day to day basis my job is a bit too full of shit. Literally.
Hope you're all enjoying the summer and hopefully there's a bit of sun where you are as well:D
xxx

Plans plans plans!

Alrighty folks, it´s the final count down!!

My time here is really coming to an end..and it is exciting, sad and scary all at the same time.

Today it´s exactly a month until vicky valentine comes and my status changes from a reliable volunteer to an adventurous backpacker:)

Plans:

Weekend 18-20 jun: San jose and puerto viejo to say bye to Sabine :(

20 - 27 jun : beach time in Bocas del Torro, PanaMA:D

28-2 jul: work work.

Weekend 2 - 4: still need to decide which trip to go on, but it will be fab anyways ;)

5-7 jul: work

8-11 jul ACI final camp!

12-16: work work

16 july: Pack up all my shit, say bye to work and host family, go to San Jose and pick up my dear Vicky at the airport!!! :D

So ladies and gentlemen, that means after this week is over I only work 2 1/2 weeks more and the rest is gonna be so much fun!

xxx

I live for the weekends!!!

Helloooo


A little update. Feeling sooo much better than last week. Not sure why but I had a really nice weekend and now I can count on one hand how many weeks until I'm done with this job! :D Plans for the rest of the stay will come in the next post, possibly tomorrow;)

Any who. Weekend. Friday I went to bed early, or correction, I tried to go to bed early but a recent grey's anatomy addiction made that plan difficult to carry out..I got up at 5 am saturday morning. Yes I know, it is waaaay to early for a saturday but my boss decided we should leave at 5.30am and then so we did. I was picked up in a small mini buss and it was packed. We are normally 5-6 workers at my job but in this bus there were like 12 other people and I was like, who the hell are you guys? I thought this was a trip for people working there..apparently there was room for 14 in the mini buss and they invited a bunch of people to fill up the buss and they did a fine job filling it up! No space was wasted that's for sure..

We drove for about 2-3 hours to a church in Cartago first so they could attend the mass, and from there it was up the hills and to volcan Irazú. This is the 3rd volcano I see in this country and I must say it was the least impressive out of the three..no activity, no noises, just a crater..buuut it was very pretty. After that we did a big loop around an area that I went to with my host family. Very nice area and we had lunch by a bride, or more like a dam and the views there were absolutely stunning! We also went to see some ruins of a church that was ruined by an earthquake in the early 1900s.
After our little trip they dropped me off in san jose and I went to the hostel and met up with the boys. It was Yann's birthday a week ago so we celebrated him! Went to a sickly expensive club with a lot of stuck up posh people but we danced and had a good time until I almost fell into a coma around 2..I was sooo tired. So went back to the hostel and was going to sleep but noooo..there was some of the leaders of ACI there and so we sat up until 4 talking shit.
Sunday I watched the germany-australia match and then went home to san ramon only to find that my host family now has a cat. And I am allergic. But she is the cutest cat ever and only like 1 month old and so as long as I keep her out of my room I think it will be ok. Let's see..

Hope it is raining less at home than it is here.. take care:) xxx

Someone, give me strength! Please?

I kind of made a deal with myself..or more of a restriction. The last two weeks I have bought quite a lot of stuff..like 4 dresses and 1 pair of shoes. Which, now that I see it written down, seems a bit excessive. So I told myself I am not going to buy anymore until I'm back in Europe, except if I find a nice bikini because I actually need one. It's only like a month and a half so shouldn't be that difficult right? Riiiiight...

Walking back from the gym today I passed a shop window and I saw THE nicest pair of sandals and a really really nice dress. Maybe Sigrid was right, maybe it should be called the land of the beautiful dresses. I really want to buy it. I couldn't today because the shop was closed but I'm afraid my willpower isn't strong enough to avoid buying it. So please, some extra willpower would be nice if anyone has anything to spare.

I am feeling better now. It really helps to work out for me and really, I have nothing to complain about! Thinking about what I have coming up makes me feel really lucky and so my whining and complaining stops right here and now. Promise.

Pura Vida Love xxx

Why does it always rain on me??

It´s official. The weather gods hate me. Im supposed to be walking home from work right about now..but then the sky opened up and if I tried to go outside I think I would dissapear. It´s raining soooo heavily. And the thunder. help. This always happens. The exact moment I need to go somewhere the sky opens. I even had to park the bicycle and go walking as cycling with umbrellas have proved to be
a) a very comic sight and
b) dangerous

and frankly I cant afford more of my electronic equipment to drown..

Im having a not so happy day today. Been quite sad actually and even cried at work..
Not sure what´s going on, buuuut planning on going to the gym (if I ever get home) to get some shit out of my system and keep focus on all the good stuff! :)

Have a nice weekend planned, my work colleagues and me are going on a trip to a volcano that I have yet to see and some other thingys and then Im being dropped off in San jose for a birthday party:) Hosetl 1110 here I come again! The only down side to this is that I have to leave my house at 5AM sat morning..might fall a sleep in my drink at the party! Buut if I go to bed friday at like 9 I might survive.

So yes. The rain has now gone from extreme to extreme light so might take the chance. Have a good night/morning/aftenoon/whatever

xxx