ZIP LINING!!!!!

hola muchachos!

this weekend was so much fun! I spent it with several girls from our group (Liz, Jess, Jess, Natalie, Nichole, and one director, Lissi). We went to Punta Leona, leaving after school Friday and coming home around 4 on Sunday. It was a lot of fun just being able to chill with the chicas and relax. Friday night we watched TV then went to karoke at the discoteca but there was only a few older women there so we went home early and hung out. Laid back but just what I needed.

Then as for Saturday...we WENT ZIP LINING!!!! Need I say more? Well probably because some of you might not know what it is. Zip lining is going up high in the trees in the forest and flying on cables through the trees. Absolutely awesome. I did it just for you Aunt Karen, if you´re reading this! :) I had told her I would do it even though I was scared to climb up that high. And it actually wasn´t even a high climb cause we hiked most of it! (Some places just have stairs and more stairs...) I got some cool pics and actually have some ones that the photographer took too...I just have to get them from my friend. Our guides were awesome and let us go upside down once too.

After ziplining we were sooo sweaty and so we headed straight out for the beach! Playa Blanca was gorgeous although there were lots of big rocks in the water that I kept hitting my foot on. We stayed there for several hours...Jess and Liz rented a kayak but other Jess and I just wanted to relax. After the beach we went back and Liz and I took the free Salsa dance class (i´m actually getting pretty good believe it or not) where we were the only two people there. It seemed like everywhere we went this weekend (like karoke) we scared everyone else away lol! Then after dance we swam in the pool, got some dinner, and headed home to chill before going back to the discoteca. We had decided we wouldn´t go until like 11 cause apparently that was when all the young ppl came out. Well we fell asleep until 11:15 but went there after that and...lets just say I have the best-funniest-most horrible story ever. But its not one to tell on blogger. Lo siento.

Sunday we headed home after doing water aerobics in the pool. The aerobics were fun and resulted in this guy asking for my email hahaha...funny stuff. When I got back to Curridibat (town right outside of San Jose where I live) I went to the mall with the fam and then we got pizza. Fun times.

I can´t believe I only have 3 days left here. Plus a day of travel...so four days. It´s going to be so good to be home. I´ve been thinking that its going to be really really hard for me to leave here now cause I´ve become so accustomed to it (which it will be hard) but now I´m so excited to be comin home. I just went back to the Mercado and finished some souvenir shopping. I was pretty much done with buying gifts and so after I finished that I had a blast blowing some $$ and getting some sweet stuff. Jewlery, a photo album made of banana paper, a SWEET cutting board made of wood (sounds lame for a souvenir but you have to see it...) and I think thats it? I´m excited though.

I couldn´t be more excited that I get to go to church as soon as I get home. My flight comes in at like 9:30 Saturday night and although I will be exhausted I am craving the fellowship and the encouragment and challenge (if thats the right word?) of being in the body of Believers. When I was at the market today one of the shops I went into was being worked by a girl prolly a lil older than me and she had Hillsong´s ¨take it all¨playing in Spanish! I told her I recognized it and I loved that song and then of course I wanted to support her so I brought a bracelet lol. Well...I should get home!

Oh P.S. I have an oral ¨final¨on Thursday. I have to write a composition about any topic I want and then talk about it for 5 minutes in class. I´m not super worried cause my teacher is great and just wants to see how we are doing (Í have an A so far)...but please pray that it goes well and that I speak fluently and smoothly and can remember the words in the correct tenses! I am talking about my trip here :)