My weekend at Arenal (La Fortuna), June 9-11

Friday was sweet, we started out at Spanish class at the institute then wen to bar amigos for the costa rica v germany futbol game. The place got crazy loud when costa rica scored. I was a big fan of number 9, but we lost :(

After that we went back to the Institute to work and then I had to skip a lecture for Josue and Kristys graduation. I was a proud sister and yelled when there name was called, who cares if people stared. After that me and Mariposa (Dan the 45 year old) hurried back because we were leaving for Arenal at 6pm.We all jammed into a van and headed towards Arenal (the active volcano)

It took around 3 hours and we were ready to get out. We got there and our hotel rooms were little cabanas, we had a lil drama over room situations because out of 10 of us -3 didnt drink. So 6 of the 10 wanted to party and the others wanted to go to bed right away and well Mariposa drinks but was being a bum. So because Asia can´t be in the same room as guys we had a problem and had to get another room. Anyways it ended up being the 5 maryland people and me in a room with two double beds. 3 to a bed sweeeeet. So we drank and killed like 3 bottles of all differnt things and then went swimming, Craig took some kewl pictures of that and then us with the volcano in the background. I learned a lot of new drinking games and we all bonded. The next day(Saturday) we hiked to another waterfall. The volcano is soooo big you can always see it and apparently we are ultra lucky because some people stay for 15 days and because of the clouds never see it...At night its sweet to see the red lava flow down the .Anyways so we hiked to the waterfall and I died. I actaully was so hot and sweaty I was getting cold chills and I could not feel my face! The decent to the waterfall was like 800 meters of nothing but stairs and this waterfall was so powerfull you could not swim near it. We swam downstream before the rainstorm. Then went back up and walked down to find food. Some stragner asked me to carry his camera in my bag up to the top but I couldn´t see him the whole way up and felt weird about it. Luckily he found me! We went to Lunch-dinner at a sweet place on the way back down, but we were so wet we felt horrible for getting their nice chairs so wet. The place was not fromiliar with fajitias apparently because we recieved no tortilla shells so we asked and they said we don´t have any, do you want bread? What is a fajita then if you have no shells?So we walked back, took a nap and then went to Tabicon for the hot springs.But decided it wasn´t worth the money and came back to drink. I for sure fell asleep like 2 hours after we were back but on the way back we saw the red lava from Arenal at night which is such an awesome sight! So the next day we swam, layed out, and packed up and went into town. It was sooooo hot compared to Monteverde!! We shopped a lil and then went back by 4 to catch our van. I sat bitch between Kam and Cam- my group for our project. Thats who I sat with on the way and ended up sleeping in between those nights too, apparently I fell alseep both nights before anyone else....I do like my sleep. We got home late on Sunday and I got hugs from my host mom and Josue-- he ran up to me as soon as I got home and told me he missed me. I found out that an American student is missing because they were stupid and went swimming at the beach during a rain storm! dON´T Worry I am way smarter than that, I wouldn't go off swimming in a rainstorm. Or go off without a substantial amount of people with me, I am friendly though and people keep saying not to say hola to everyone...I'll work on it