last week - catching up

here we go again - i'm almost 2 weeks behind on blogginess and more than a few hours behind on sleep. i've just returned to my potrero home from nicaragua, but those stories will have to wait, lest i forget last week. (please forgive the typos, as i have no plans to read through any of this.)

it's all kind of running together, but i spent most of last week hanging out with my captain friend, exchanging english and spanish lessons. on thursday, i got to go on a free sailboat tour out to a little beach then around the point for the sunset. it was grand. phweee-ooh, it's difficult to go about this chronologically so here goes a bullet-brianstorm of events:

- made two batches of cookie dough for my host family - one for that day and one to freeze for after i leave.

- i took the public bus home for the first time. . much less sketchy than they appear from the outside.

- i got a mosquito bite on my wrist tattoo... think patterned balloons.

- have decided to spend my next week of classes in monteverde. it's a rainforesty, mountainous region that sounds excellent, however i won't know until tomorrow if i get to make the switch. fingers crossed. .

- friday night, almost every CPI student went to tamarindo - 8 of us got a minibus and headed out around 10. we went to 'the monkey bar', which featured a live (and rather skilled) band in the upper section (the whole place wwas open, with a pool, two bars, and two dancefloors). unfortunately, the band often had to compete with mediocre reggae remixes and pop-rap from the lower floor. i would rather spend an entire day bouncing along dusty roads, weaving among cattle and bicycles and fearing for everyone's lives than spend half an hour caught within some battle of the genres throb-athon at the monkey bar.
however, i danced a bit and paid too much for drinks and left with the bus around 2

- i spent the entire next day on the beach in the shade reading and napping. had an early dinner at a local restaurant, and stumbled upon my ticket to nicaragua (aka project visa-renew). quite the perfect saturday.

- that ticket was heather and family, a foursome from california who own the place where my captain friend lives. mark and the kids -ben and tara- were already in nicaragua, and heather was heading up sunday morning to meet them for a trip to omatepe(an island in lake nicaragua). Effran (or Jeffrey - the captain) mentioned that i might be able to tag along. as it turns out, he was absolutely right, but i must save that adventure for another time. likely tomorrow when my internet access is free and i have had more sleep. . .