Monday 9/29/08

Today I didn’t go running because my lower back is still recovering from my banana slip fall at soccer on Saturday (don’t worry Mom. I’m fine, just very sore. It just kind of feels like I fell on hard ice, but it’s no serious injury, I promise!) Today I went to the first 45 minutes of class, but had to skip out on part of class (pre-approved by my prof) so that I could go to an interview with the director of the only university level film school in Latin America. It was an amazing interview. The director was a Cuban man who had lots of information about the Latin American film industry (making connections here is so much easier than it would be trying to get a hold of people like this man in the U.S.). He also gave me a few DVDs of some independent projects. Who knows, maybe I have the next award winning film in my hands. I headed back to class after an interesting conversation with my taxi driver and only missed about 1.5 hours of class. After class I headed home. I did the unthinkable a second time. I walked from San Jose to Tibas. Luckily I beat the daily downpour just by a matter or minutes. I spent the afternoon doing homework. I took a quick break for a bowl of Corn Flakes with Mami and my siblings and continued on with homework. For dinner Papi made a delicious dish of gallo pinto (the most traditional Costa Rican dish of rice and beans) and we enjoyed a family dinner discussing some of the grossest foods we’ve eaten. Pamela and I watched TV (I hope you understand that when I write almost daily it almost always means that I fall asleep while letting Pamela watch TV in my room. She always sweetly watches until she’s tired and then turns out the light and wishes mi “Buenas Noches” evening though I’ve probably been snoring and drooling for the last hour of the latest Hannah Montana episodes…attractive, I know!)