So, I know, this is a little late compared to when I usually post these things, sorry! This last week and a half I started a new Spanish course; and this one has a lot of projects so far, so I have been busy!
So not this last weekend, but the weekend before that I went on an optional trip with my school. We started out in La Fortuna, at the base of the Arenal Volcano! The first night we were treated like royalty (or at least for college students we sure did fell like we were!) We went to Baldi Hot Springs! These were so relaxing, AND dinner was included there, with a decadent chocolate fountain which just so happened to be placed next to Strawberries and other great tasting fruit! ;) I think you get the picture, haha! The hot springs though were amazing and so relaxing!
The next day we went to see some more waterfalls, this time just in La Fortuna. And in this waterfall we could go swimming! I decided not to though. During our time there, my housemate saw a snake, and took a picture of it. Then we asked the staff member at the site what type of snake it was... to find out it was poisonous, and right near the water where everyone was swimming. The guy decided to go investigate, very smoothly I might add, to find out that yes it was extremely poisonous! Luckily, no one got hurt, and he just kinda nicely told the people they should leave the area for a little while. At this time our college group had mainly got out the water!
After this, we headed on over to Monteverde by "jeep-boat-jeep"... It was actually a bus, a ferry then we hopped on a different bus, but that is what our itinerary said. Anyways, we got to relax for the night, the next morning...we were going on a canopy tour!
So, the next morning, we got up at like 6:30 am and went and did this canopy tour... IT WAS AMAZING! There were four to five different Zip lines and then I did something crazy! I didn't think about what I was doing until I was walking out above the trees getting ready to jump... I did the Tarzan Swing at this place. To find out later, it is the highest in Costa Rica. A video is attached here! (This is not my video, simply found it on YouTube after I got back!
Yeah I know... Didn't think too much about it until I started walking down the "bridge" then I started to think... "What am I doing, am I crazy?" But I did it anyways! It was amazing! So there was my weekend recap!
Now this last Monday was interesting! I woke up around 4:55ish in the morning, because I was shaking. Then felt relieved when I realized I was not shaking... my bed was! 10 seconds later, realized my bed shouldn't be shaking! Now, I'm tired and confused trying to figure out what's happening. Then I noticed my blinds were swaying back and forth kinda crazily! Aha! I figured it out! I'm experiencing my first earthquake! So I was never taught what to do, so I just sat cross-legged in my bed and watched it happen! I looked up at the ceiling though... to make sure nothing was going to fall on me or anything! Then went back to bed! When I got up for class, I was wondering if that was actually an earthquake, so I checked it out online... IT WAS!!! It was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake according to the Richter scale! The center was only about 40 or so miles away from San Jose! So, that was pretty cool! That day, that was the big subject in school...at least for the international students. I guess down here, they only call it a tremor until it is a magnitude 7 earthquake, so they considered this to be normal... BUT, according to me it's still an earthquake, especially for someone who never has earthquakes around their house! I guess I'll be experiencing more though, my teacher says they are very common this time of year! This semester just got more interesting!
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Pues, adios... Gotta finish up some projects!
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