Ciudad y cine

el 30 de enero, 2015

I woke up around 7 or 8 am with the sunlight streaming through my window. I slept in as much as i could and then settled on taking pictures through the window next to my bed of the surrounding countryside.

Marlen and Jose, the parents, and the middle brother Ezequiel gathered and we ate a breakfast of fried eggs, bread, butter, cheese, gallo pinto (rice and beans with cilantro) and coffee. I thoroughly enjoyed the meal. Marlen, the mom, and I had planned to leave around 10 to go to the university and meet up with Pablo, a friend I mine who also graduated from Berry, but a few years before. But in typical "tico time" we arrived at 1 after changing plans 5 times and bringing Jose, the dad along with us to drive.

Thankfully Pablo is also tico so he was not fazed by the change in meeting time, and he was waiting when they dropped me off at the school.
Pablo and I are lunch at a trendy Caribbean place and he helped me find the ATM. We took a bus to Plaza de Cultura and walked through the Gold Museum, which was quite impressive.

After the museum we got ice cream and sat overlooking a didgeridoo concert in the square.

Around 5 Ezequiel picked me up from the plaza and we went to the mall. We had about two hours to kill before seeing a Costarican film called Maikol Yordan de Viaje Perdido. We went to Starbucks and unfortunately they didn't accept my gift card, but we ordered anyway and chatted a while.

The movie was hilarious, although I didn't catch every joke or pun. It's about a hillbilly that goes to the capital city and eventually on to Europe to find a job or a way to make money so that his family won't lose their land. The film is very popular all over the country and grossed higher than Avatar did.

After the movie we went to Rostipollos and I ate dinner even though it was already 9ish. Then we went to see the baby nephew and I got to take a picture with him sleeping in the crib.

After that Ezequiel was hungry so we went to a bar called Mundo Loco for him to eat dinner. There was live music but unfortunately it was extremely loud and heavy metal so we sat on the other side, watching instead a tv that showed various music videos and concert clips. By the time we got back I realized how tired I was from walking around all day and speaking more Spanish then any other day in the last few months or even last year.