Birthdays and Walking

            Got my Spanish test back yesterday and got a 97.5% on it.  I misspell the Spanish word “orange” and used the wrong word for actress but other than that I did great.  I played soccer yesterday with some Americans and Ticos on a concrete basketball court.  It was a blast.  Most of the ticos are pretty darn good and take the game really seriously even though it was just a low-key pickup game.  I was able to keep up with most of them.  I definitely want to do it again. 

            We all met at 8 last night and went out for Sarah’s 22^nd birthday.  After walking forever trying to find the Italian restaurant we wanted to go to, taking a bus, and walking some more, we found the restaurant.  Then we realized that it was closed.  We settled instead on this nice little Mexican restaurant.  I didn’t eat since I had just had dinner but the rest did and it was fun to just hang out and relax with everyone.  The urinals in this place were really high up which confused me since most ticos are short.  Anyways, we took a taxi home since we shouldn’t have been walking around the city at night anyways.  In other unrelated news, today I have a quiz over some vocab words (parts of the body and food) and a presentation about the “responsibilities of my family.”

We’re headed to Monteverde this coming weekend to see the cloud forest and do some zip lining.  Hopefully it doesn’t rain as much as it did in Arenal.