18. February 2008 by admin.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted but here goes like 3-4 posts at once…

Why the lack of updates, well you know when its perfect every day you try not to spend hours on your blog. So since the 5th lets see whats happened? Ron Paul is continuing his campaign! Romney dropped dead… I mean out, that was wishful typing. McCain is still a fascist and Bush still looks like a monkey. My host brother is dating a huge girl according to dona Yenny, my friend Erin Celiac booked a flight to costa, and I met Tom Hank’s twin bald brother, see the Domincal post for pictures.

In the whole 3 weeks Ive been here I have heard not one word of Brittany Spears or Heath Ledger, it truely is paradise. Ive gone to the beach the last two weekends, met sweds, brits, nores, ticos, ticas, germans, nicos, peruvians, and way to many gringos. Most of the europeans speak better english then me, and none of the gringos can say more then grassyass and HOELA in “spanish”, i learned that guaro and café rica is muy rico, and dangerous.

Ok so to school i guess. Im meet nice people, all of who help me with my spanish, or try to understand my mexi-melt spanglish, and i help them with english a bit, mainly teaching them curse words, there are not that many bad words hear, life is to good to swear, or they just don’t want us to know when they talk behind our backs… either way never call a girl a fox in costa, just don’t.

The food is amazing, and cheap, you can eat for like 2 bucks and not be able to move, this includes a drink. The cheapest meal was 2 bucks for a whole plate of food, a cup of coffee, a juice, and a bottle of water, and this was for two people.

We broke a car! The exhaust sheared from the muffler. But it was a rental so we just coasted into the lot and said nothing, i had full coverage anyhow. Don’t know how i could have managed to do that, or how thats all i managed to do.

We found out that only McDonalds has real ketchup, tico salsa tomate is no substitute but mixed with mayo with lime its bearable. Coffee hear might be the single thing keeping to me alive, but tomorrow i start a swim class, im going to tear these ticos up ive got an average of 6 inches on all of them and im much slimmer.

thats all for the general update, as my mother reads this

Pura Vida

Garrett

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5. February 2008 by admin.

So tis super tuesday! But, it passed by here in Costa Rica like nothing at all. I kinda wanted to shout, “Hey don’t any of you care that America is choosing its candidates for president!” Oh, but they wouldn’t care, why because every year its the same bloody thing, two candidates that are pretty much the same thing, just one supports abortion and one supports school lead prayer. Its what you might call a roués. Oh hear choose between this turd sandwich and this giant douche.

Although this election cycle we do have a choice, but the powers that be say no, you get either a turd sammy or a douche. Thanks Rupert, thanks Bush, thanks Billary Clinton. So it’s pretty much another 4 years of decline and more centralized power. The problem isn’t that again we have to choose between the lesser of two evils but for once a candidate who had a vision of hope ran. Ron Paul may not have won but his message of Revolution isn’t going to end when one of the elitist few again take control of our highest office. It’s no longer time for talk, its time for action. Im not saying go out and vote, you had your chance today, and if you voted for the elite to run your life, may god help you. Im saying its time to hit the streets, burn some cop cars, throw some cocktails, and i don’t mean drinks.

Break out the black bandanas and gasoline, don’t riot in your community, but hit the downtown streets where the major corporations and ceos are, and burn some stuff down.

check out this video below and see what is in store for us in april

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxKTTU_ZePE 

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2. February 2008 by admin.

Hola Amigos~

So to was a great, great day!

I moved with Rachel into a host families home! My own room, with freaking internet and everything a technofile like me needs. The house is nice size and my host family is sweet. My room includes breakfast, desayuno, and dinner, cena, and a nice size room for myself, and my boards.

Spent the grand part of the day moving and getting settled. I, with Daniel my host brother, walked my board bag all through town. This solicited  some very odd looks from the ticos. I mean its not every day they get to see a gringo and a tico wheeling a 10 foot bag through the streets of cartago. I still need to put pictures of my bag up this thing is huge. It fits my long board and my 6′4” great, and i have room for another if i wanted.

After the move me and Rachel went in search of lunch. We ate at resturante intelegente, the intelligent restaurant.  Which is the local Chinese joint, but we both got local fare as tico chino food sounded a little sketch. The food was alright but nothing spectacular. On the way back we stopped at dionicies, a liquor store. We purchased a 2×1 pack of rum or ron in costa rica for 10 dollars US, nice. We then walked back home, had a drink and sat and talked with Dona Jenny for a couple hours. While a local painter who could be orlando blooms twin painted the home.

We then went to the centro comercial and had dinner, i bought some soap, jabon, and some shampoo, champoo, and we come home.  I then had the best cup of coffee of my life made in a awesome contraption called a correador, http://www.runnerduck.com/coffee_maker.htm see link for plans. I mean this coffee is what god drinks before he creates universes.

So yeak tomorrow the volcano Irazu and defiantly some super awesome pictures that’ll make all you geology nuts wirthe with jealousy, ok time to finish Don’t Be a Menace in South Central, While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

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