Sámara Recap

So I know that I´m waaaaaaaay behind, but the last two internet cafes I went to didn´t allow me to access my blog website for editing (which has happened a few times now). A brief recap of Samara first:

WED-SAT

I went surfing twice more. The waves on Saturday were awesome--absolutely huge. I actually took my biggest spills working my way back out from the shore, instead of while I was riding them in. Class ended with a barbeque and a graduation ceremony on Thursday night. Each of us had to take the mic and say a little bit in Spanish thanking our teachers or whatever. The best ones were, "Gracias" and "Pura vida." I guess some people didn´t want to talk very much.

Those of us with hotels had to leave on Friday, so myself and another guy we lucky enough to crash at a cabina/house where 8 of our girls were staying at through the weekend. Yeah 8. And one bathroom. It worked out because the only time I was there I was sleeping. I spent as much time on the beach as possible. I also got a couple leather bracelets for three bucks each from one of the street vendors, and made sure I went to the fruit store/ice cream shop where José worked. I had to see his bird Frederico perform his antics. Still waiting to get Emily´s video of him spinning in circles from a piece of string while customers are dodging him. It looked like one of those electric airplanes that´s attached to a string that´s stuck to the ceiling with a thumb tack going around and around and around...only it was a bird entertaining himself.

SUN

Bought a bus ticket last evening for $6, and caught it at 8:00 am, and it left at 8:20 (ten minutes early). The ten year-old son of the bus driver was the guy loading and sorting the luggage, and I sort of felt bad for him. He had to spend all his time on a hot, bumpy, uncomfortable bus. Anyways I quickly noticed that some people got to ride the bus for free. The catch is they had to stand in the aisle, in some cases for more than three hours in a row. There were probably close to ten people in the aisle for the majority of the trip, and I´m not kidding when I say it was HOT. By the end of the trip my shirt was stuck to my back. I spent the rest of my afternoon playing Gin Rummy with Emily, and I watched both Click and Jackass 2. Jackass 2 was amazing, and I recommend it to pretty much everybody.