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12-6-2004 (real orginal no?)

// December 7th, 2004 // Costa Rica, San Jose

ahh… what a day… well i started the day off at about 10 or 11am… i came on here and wrote, then went for a walk downtown with Michael… we got some food and came back… we got back and hung out for a bit, then michael taught me how to play the card game “shithead” it was fun… also, a guy from switzerland joined us (Martin i believe) we played for a little bit and shared stories… in the middle of the game, brendan showed up… we sat around a bit then headed back downtown… i needed to get a towel and he needed some stuff… we ran into a rasta that was selling a backpack he wanted so we watied for him to come back to us, but henever showed up… michael left us around this time to go back to change, as he was meeting melissa for a dinner date…

I went to an atm and waited for aobut 30 mins and ended up tkaing out 2x as much as i had wanted…. which is still ok… better to have more than not enough. we then walked back towards the hostel as we knew of a free concert going on…. we wanted to try to get back to the hostel before the concert but it was starting as we walked by… we stayed and enjoyed the music… it was similiar to bela fleck and the flecktones… a guitar, violin and drums… veyr good. some fat guy sang a couple lovey dovey soundy songs which weren’t so good! in any case, they were selling confetti ($.50) and everyone was buying it and throwing it everwhere and on everyone… in their faces, everywhere. it was crazy, it looked like snow! i had it thrown on me a lot as the little kids are fascinated by both my height and my dread locks. i get many looks…. kids stare, i laugh.

after the show, brendan wanted to take me to a bar for a beer… and by bar i mean whorehouse. before you jump to conclusions… this wasn’t a shady hole in the wall… it was very upscale (beers were more than double anywhere else) we just went for a beer… not to partake. it was kind of sad actually… a lot of old white guys looking for sex. the girls were gorgeous of course… after a beer we left… it was something to experience… prostitution is legal here by the way…

after the whore house, brendan wanted to go home as he has to work tomorrow… he walked me back to my house… so he left and i went to write in my journal. i ended up meeting back up with Martin and we drank a beer, then some whiskey… A guy from toronto joined us, followed by a guy from Bend, OR… along with a girl from Germany… we drank and talked for a while… and now i’m here. The guy from toronto reminds me a lot of my good buddy ben rau… same demanor, same kind of look, same great conversation, similar habits concerning things he does subconsciously with his hands… hard to explain… if you know ben, you know what i mean, if you don’t know ben, well you should.

Tomorrow i take a 4 hour bus ride at 10am to Bri Bri… from there i hope i am met by someone or something to take me wherever it is i ‘m going after that, i honestly don’t know what is going on…

I really wish i could get some pictures up, but it’s just not feasable right now. perhaps in a week when i take a break from the volunteering and will more than likely have burnt a cd of pictures… even then, it wil take close to an hour or maybe 30 mins to send one picture… we’ll see though… if only i had a laptop and could resize them…. i really wish i had a laptop instead of all these stupid individual electronic items i have…. what was i thinking? cd burner, mp3 player, pocket pc for gps…. oh well. i’m stuck like this and will make due just fine.

i guess that’s about it for tonight’s update… maybe one more in the morning, otherwise none until the 14th or so….

pura vida