Blackberry Juice

The blackberry juice tasted really good. It was more purple instead of black. The seeds kept getting stuck in your teeth.

Mango Juice

The mango juice tasted OK. It wasn't my favorite, but not my least favorite either.

Starfruit

Here is a picture of a starfruit:

Pineapple Juice

DELICIOUS!!! Sweet and refreshing. We all loved it.

Starfruit Juice

I hated it. It tasted disgusting. It even smelled disgusting. My mom was the only person who actually LIKED it.

Our Casita

Here is a video I have made about our Casita.

Watermelon Juice

The watermelon juice in overall tasted good. It was very refreshing. A little too watery for my taste. Sam loved it.

Exotic Juices

I am going to make a series of instalments on the various interesting juices I have been having in Costa Rica. I will also include my ratings of the juice.

Noise, Noise, NOISE!!!!!!!!!

In Costa Rica, there is no such thing as silence. There is constantly animals chitering and howling. The bugs make weird noises all the time. Plus, you can't go very long without hearing someone shout. It's chaotic!!!!!

The Ultimate Cure for Disgusting Malaria Preventing Medicine

When you have finished swallowing the malaria medicine preventitive and tons of water you should brush your teeth and spit. You should add more tooth paste every so often.

El Mercado (the market)

Today after taking a short break, I went to a Mercado down the street. At the Mercado there was all sorts of different things to buy. Necklaces, purses, hammoks, stuffed animals and painted feathers are just a few. After walking for a while, my little brother Sam saw a painted flute-an ocarina-that was shaped like a bird. He was entranced by it and promptly used the six dollars he had brought to buy a souvenir on it. I decided that I loved a pen that had a gecko curling around it and I spent two dollars on it.

Whew! We're here!

Costa Rica Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today is my first day here. We got to our hotel in the afternoon. You would not believe the amount of buses I saw in the short drive from the San Jose airport to a little hotel. And even more than that were the people that we saw walking. San Jose is populated with about two million people.

Messed Up Malaria Medicine

A tip for everyone: Never go somewhere that makes you take malaria medicine. Malaria medicine tastes disgusting. You will not know what disgusting tastes like until you have had malaria preventing medicine. Grownups are lucky. They don't have to take it in liquidized form. After I took the malaria medicine, the taste stuck in my mouth. I was smart and I took it before supper so the other tastes diluted the malaria medicine. Before supper I was walking around with my tongue sticking out and breathing through my mouth.

A Section of a Shopping List For a Trip to Costa Rica

~Bandaids
~Vitamins
~Mini packets of kleenex
~Sunscreen
~Gum
~Galoshes for over your shoes
~Bugspray
~Flashlights
~Toothpaste
~Antibacterial hand gel
~Snacks for the plane
~Journal

And much, much, more.

Intro

From July 24 to August 29 I will be in Costa Rica. This will be sort of like my diary only it won't be private. For the first two weeks I will be in Hojancha, working at a school. Then I will go to Camaronal to work with sea turtles. The last two weeks I am going to chill.