Week 4

Apologies for not blogging more often. I was catching up on some much needed sleep yesterday, but Jess has insisted I keep her informed on the day to day here. Well, our weekend in Tamarindo was a lot of fun. We met up with some friends from Monteverde and spent a night out on the town. We had dinner at a nice italian restaurant that overlooked the town and it was very pretty. After that, we made our way to the famous Monkey Bar, which was packed, but had some good music. We spent all day Saturday at Diria and were too wiped out to go out Saturday, so we returned to the house and went swimming. Caroline and Tyler also were awesome enough to let us crash at their house all weekend.
This week will be a short one in Flamingo, because Katie and I will be headed to Manual Antonio on Thursday. After a weekend of trying to coordinate 12-15 people for every event, we are looking forward to a weekend with just two of us. I've also been in touch with David, a tico who was awesome to my family when we were in MA in March, and he's taken a day off work to show us around and make sure everything is going ok. We also got the best news EVER last night when my mom said they were going to let us stay at the Buena Vista Villas again. I can't explain how thankful Katie and I are. So thanks mom and dad!!
There are many reasons we are excited to be staying in a nice place for three days but the best example can be given with the events that took place this morning. When we first arrived at our hut, the shower gave us a little electric jolt everytime we touched the handle for the water. Well, we thought it was fixed until this morning. I took a shower and found out it was back. So I just put a towel over it to turn it. But when I got out of the shower, half of our bathroom was covered in water. Katie and I had a nice laugh, and then Katie went to shower. Well five minutes later she's screaming "Kelly get in here!". The shower was steaming hot and the shower head had turned red. She then told me she was feeling the electric jolts in her feet! Our bathroom now smells like something is burning. We told the front desk and when they asked what room she chuckled when we said 413. Apparently this has happened before.
On a happier note, school is going well. Perhaps when I return I can translate for my dad at work. Now that would be an interesting job. Our teacher is younger this week and likes to talk about really random things, such as when 'handsome' people get special treatment, and what places in the U.S. we can't get into because we don't have enough money. It does make for some interesting conversation. Well, I have to lay out by the pool now. It's the first sunny afternoon in quite awhile!