arrived in puerto viejo de talamanca two days ago. o my word, this place is something else. pura vida would be the best way to describe it...irie might do it too. it's just really caribbean here...and i absolutely LOVE it.
dropped my friend in san jose, after having seen the highest amount of car accidents ever. including a v exciting one nearly tilting over from a rock, and a v injured truckdriver hanging some decent metres above the ground. if you want to see truck accidents, costa rica is the place to go. in one day i could see why this is the second-best country for this strange phenomenon almost always including trucks.
so...pv de talamanca. decided to stay at this major thing called rocking j's. and it's...typical. phrases like 'niet poepen op de trap' can be found in abundancy, there's mosaic everywhere, everyone seems to be one with nature (i'm so not that it's hilarious), dorms are out of this time (w/ magic dormmates: disappearing and re-gendering in the blink of an eye), funny dormmate from the states who plays dutch songs like 'watskeburt' (and does a sweet sing-a-long - i should make a video of it), there's hammocks and major crabs - striking - everywhere and there's some awesome livemusic. i think i might agree that this place rocks (and smells, too, for that matter).
surfing is cool...tho no big waves or anything (not that i'd manage being a beginner). had some great lessons from topo, the lion instructor (no other way to describe it). he's managed to keep me on the board for an entire lesson (ok...to not not get up that means in my case). i apparently (geeeeee, WHAT a surprise for all of you!) have a bad case of a lack of upperbody strength, hence my aching at this very moment. have felt better in my life, but it's def worth it to finally get on the board. going in tom, again, to enjoy some waves en la manana, so hope learning goes faster from now on. i just cannot believe that surfing had been a major reason for me to come to cr, and that i've only just started. guess there's sooooo much to see here and a whole week left. tho, i would have loved to have done a bit of kitesurfing in lake arenal, too. boohooooo....guess i have to do that in coldy, rainy, freezing nl after all :).
now heading for lovely helado; hope it's worth the 'o-my-god-it's-so-hot-i-cannot-walk-another-step-in-the-freakin-burning-soleil' moment :). plus the hissing of the snakes here (=men. why on earth would u everrrrrr respond to someone making snakesounds in ur direction? once i have thought of the theory behind this thing, i'll get back to u).
for now: pura vida :D
