Friday 11/21/08

Happy Costa Rica’s Teacher Appreciation Day! Hey, that now includes me! We didn’t have school today in order to do exactly what the day entails, appreciating ourselves. I ran on the elliptical while my brothers watched some weird Eddie Murphy movie and we all ate pinto and banana pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast, it was off to getting our chores done. Luckily I convinced Maria to let me help with the household chores. I swept the house, washed the dishes, and cleaned the kitchen while listening to Maria belt out some amazing Mexican mariachi music. We had a nice lunch and afterward (due to the fact I could tell it was going to be a slow going day due to rain and my family’s TV and movie watching consumption) I decided to go for a walk around town and stop in quickly at the internet café and buy a bag (as I know I won’t be able to cram everything back in the way I packed it. Does anyone else have that problem of being able to pack for a journey and then never fit your stuff in on the way back?) I came home, ate my daily snack of pancakes and then I headed to Puerto Viejo with Licho, Maria, Andres and my grandma (Maria’s mom). We were going to visit a friend who has stomach cancer. We delivered fruits, breads, meals and ice cream and did what we Latinos do best, “platicar” (simply sit around and talk and talk and talk). We eventually headed back to La Virgen and ate dinner, watched part of Harry Potter (thanks to our new TNT) and headed off to bed.