Moving On

Our final week at spanish school has now come to an end. We´ve learned a lot about spanish and the Tico culture. Orosi was a great little town for our time at school, but we´re very excited about travelling to more beautiful places. This week was the traditional students vs. teachers soccer game and it was a blast! It was 5 on 5 indoor soccer and Brian was definitely the star! I wasn´t too bad myself; our team won 13-7. One of our class days we had a field trip, so to speak. We went with our other fellow students and teachers to a local coffee manufacturing plant. We donned helmets and received the full tour. That night we ate at the best seafood place in a 30km radius. They catch the fish out of the river behind the place, grill it up, and literally serve you the whole thing. On weekends there is a line of people who come as far away as San Jose for the fish. All of this for $3, we love it here.

Another day, after talking to fellow hostelers, we decided to hike Tapanti National Park, only 20 minutes away. Tapanti has beautiful cliffs, mountains, rivers and forests. It was gorgeous! The air is so clean here, its amazing. We only had until 1:00 before we had to get back for school, so we were hikers on a mission. Brian thought we could cover every trail in that amount of time. To make a long story short...we did! We did however make an absolutely fatal mistake; we forgot our insect repellant. We were swarmed with mosquitos on each trail which meant we couldn´t stop walking; if we stopped we would get bit. So we truly hiked the park in record time. Our only moment of peace was in the middle of the river on a huge rock with our feet in the very cold water and no mosquitos to be found! It was great, we will probably never forget that place. In the end we covered 13km in 3 1/2 hours...and that isn´t on flat ground. The waterfalls, flowers and the expanse of the wilderness made it all worth it.