Friday, October 28, 2005
Time Spent in San José:We really need to update this blog.
So much to tell, so much to tell... we've got stories about Nicaragua, our new apartment & the normal stuff about how we're so interesting & how even when things are bad here we're still in Costa Rica! Oh well, you've got something to look forward to for later.
Our new apartment is in downtown San José so there's more to see & do nearby, here's a bit of what we've been doing the last 2 weeks:
- Our move means that my 10 minute jog to capoiera class will now take about 30 minutes, but I'll be out of class for @ least the next week. I sprained my ankle jogging last Tuesday giving me another excuse not to go back to capoiera for a while. Maybe I can work on my handstands while my ankle is healing?
- We now live about 5 blocks from Tin Jo. We went there for dinner the other night & I can't wait to go back. I'm thinking we could eat there more often if we just go for dessert sometime, that way we wouldn't go out too much.
- Since el Centro Nacional de la Cultura is across the street from our new apartment, Ellie's checked out a Harry Potter Festival & an Indigenous People's Festival, together we went to an X-Files Festival, which consisted of some tables of sci-fi/X-files merchandize & a projector setup in another room playing episodes of the show. We watched about 1 & 1/2 episodes in Spanish which was just about as easy to follow as it is in English.
- International release dates being what they are we saw the 40 Year Old Virgin on Wednesday (I so love 1/2 price Wednesdays!) & we may go see it again, everyone was laughing so loud that we're sure we missed some of the jokes. I was really surprised:
1. I really liked the movie & found it really funny.
2. Comedy is SO culturally dependent I was amazed that the audience found it funny in spite of it. - Slowly but surely I'm getting to know San José better, although sometimes I wish I didn't. I found a public pool, a couple restaurants I'd love to check out (there are 2 places that have Mariachis that I'm really anxious to see), discovered an arcade, some movie theaters, a few cheap electronics stores & saw 2 places I'd rather not see again. Both were unpleasant red light districts: imagine HBO's Hookers on the Point for one & then imagine it again with everyone having big hands & adam's apples. Prostitution is legal in Costa Rica so I assumed that would mean that the problems we associate with it in the US wouldn't apply, but it may be that the problems of drug addiction & poverty don't give people a lot of work options in any country.
Ciao por ahorra,
Kepfram
Kepfram & Ellie, 8:27 PM
