Weirdness of the Week - I'm going home :]

1. Amanda - meeting my future student at the beach or Quepos is tan pequenito:

I went to the beach on Friday to enjoy my last day with one of my friends who is moving to Brasil and this really sweet girl came up to where we were sitting; she said, "puedo sentarme con ustedes para que no estoy sola?"  (Can I sit with you guys so that I am not alone).  We were a little surprised, but replied - sure, of course!  She offered us cookies and I offered her grapes.  I asked her how old she was and she told me that she was in High School.  Guess what... yep, she goes to the high school I will probably work at and she will even be in the level I plan to teach.  So, Quepos is a super small town and I already know 3 students.  She introduced me to her friends of course :] 

2.  Happy New Year!

You may remember how Christmas seemed to happen early here.  Well, guess what... so does New Years.  I'm not even joking.  My friends and I went to the disco on Friday night to despidirme and not at midnight, but at 1:20 in the morning.... the DJ randomly started a countdown for new years.  December 14th at 1:20am is new years here - or maybe it just happens all the time; I don't know.  Sometimes I wonder if I just attract these weird events because I find them so amusing.  Anyway, after the countdown, he started to play (what my friends told me) are traditional new years songs and started pouring shots of guaro into people's mouths; all you had to do was walk up to him and there he was, pouring right from the bottle.  I guess I didn't miss new years here, after all :]  haha. 

3.  The House that Has All of Its Things Outside:

If you remember, there is this one house in particular that always has its things outside.  One day the family was playing video games on the sidewalk, cables strung from the upstairs window.  Well, they are moving more and more of their things across the street.  Now, on the river bank there is what looks like a fridge, a 4 wheeler, and at least four chairs that they are often sitting in when I walk by.  Is their living room slowly migrating across the street?  Also, when I walked by on Saturday, I realized that their Christmas Tree is also outside of their house.  Of course it is. 

4.  Stolen Tenies:

On Friday night my tennis shoes were on the barred porch where they always are and on Saturday morning they were not.  Yep, someone needed my shoes more than I did and must have pulled them out through the bars with a long stick.  Luckily it was the day I was leaving so I could get new ones.  Today, when I went to see the volcano in Alajuela with my friends they told me it would be super cold.  It was, but my friend gave me old tennis shoes that fit perfectly.  Success!