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yesterday marked my 3 month anniversary (and the beginning of my final week) in costa rica; pa arrives on thursday afternoon, and we will be heading north on sunday.

i have changed residences - am staying in the lovely house of a lovely family from california - some of you may remember a mention or two of heather, mark, tara, and ben from my nicaraguan excursian of early december.

chilin with their dog kiki while they're out and about; pa and i may be sharing bunk beds for a couple nights while he's here. . it's a nice area of potrero, called surfside, not too far from the school and really rather close to one of cpi's bus stop.

haven't been up to much worth writing about, mostly writing, which is a welcome return - had been feeling a little frazzley and needed to get back to poetry and the like.

last week i stayed in the cpi residences, much like apartment stye college dorms. . uh huh.
really wasn't too terrible - lucked out on the roommate, a delightful gal from california, and the other residents all got along just fine. . sharing a small and ill equiped kitchen was less than desireable but the hot water (a marvel found only the b&b and the apts thus far) made up for the mild inconveniences.

went to tamarindo for dancing friday night - did not think i would be returning to that party party town, but the poweroutages that we've been having (yes, water's out, too..) made 'chillin alone for the night all calm-like and mellow' sing a whole new tune, so i jumped on in to the double-taxi exodus and actually enjoyed myself quite a bit. i still feel like that town's ratehr ridiculous, but the company made the evening and we got home before 3.

i requested miquelina as a teacher and am in her clas this week, along with two girls from norway - we've been getting along great; the laughs make up for the changes that come from a 3 person class. . (one-on-one may be intense but it's definitely more effective). .

am enjoying the hell out of being back by the sea - it's hotter than vita's on an august afternoon with cookies in the oven, but i am surviving just fine.

which brings me to:
the Ridiculous with a capitol R wind that're been blowing this past week. multiple days it's been too strong for safe sailing. however, i enjoy it immensely during the times when i'm not trying to relax on the beach/swim. with the wind chill, etc, the water feels a little mroe familiar .. aka fridgid. .

gotta surrender this machine to the horde of other students on the sign up sheet;
more later about other activites, observations, and most importantly nicaragua plans,

love,
mak

p.s. my dear brother is now back in the states. i say 'bollocks' to the japan border people, but i am not-so-secretly excited that i get to see him much sooner than planned. . .