La Vida Bocas

I started Spanish classes yesterday, and even though I'm not going to say that 5 years of IB Spanish wasn't helpful, they definitely were and I wouldn't be at the level of Spanish I am now without them, but being immersed in Spanish, with people learning Spanish who have just as much desire to not speak English or try not to, is about a million times better. The exponential amount my confidence and Spanish speaking skills have improved in the past four days is ridiculous. All the teachers are really nice and helpful, and I couldn't ask for more. In other news, a friend and I rented really old and crappy bikes, and proceeded to bike to a surf spot called Paunch, which also happens to be near where another one of our friends is buying a house to start a little hotel. Well, what would have been a 10 minute boat ride turned out to be a 1.5 hr bike ride through knee-waist deep mud. My friend lost one sandal and discovered another one in the process, and we decided that it was probably not a good idea to disregard the fact that the lady who is buying that house told us that it was impossible to get there by bike. Nonetheless, we got there and it was definitely worth it. After marinating for only about 10min. we started the journey back, and rewarded ourselves with the treat of the gods, Trits, and if you don't know what those are you've either never been to Costa Rica and/or Panama, or your just damn ignorant. I'm currently watching some cooking channel from Spain on TV, and after that I'm going to relax in a hammock and watch the sunset. haHa. Hasta Luego, peace.