Well my adventurous experience it was when my cousin, my mother and I, decided to go to Malpais city and Playa del Carmen beach. We have been there before because we have a cousin (another cousin, it is more like second cousin) who was living there.
When we arrived we went to the hotel "Playa del Carmen".
That day we went to the beach (that was the thing most boring of the trip).
The next day my mother and my cousin went to rent 2 Atvs. Then we went in the atvs to another beach.
After, my cousin and I took the atvs and we went to the mountain. In that place there are a lot of streets that get into the mountains. Once we were almost in the top of the mountain, we decided to get back to the Hotel because it was getting late. But after riding the atvs for 15 mins we realized that we have got lost in the middle of the mountain. My atv was running out of gas and it was getting late and we were hungry. Then 30 mins after we found the way out of the mountain. After that we went to have dinner and we were tired.
Next day we take a route to another beach where it was a big plastic bag full with tiny crabs in it. There were like hundreds of them. After that we went back to the hotel. Later that day we went out in the ATVS again. This time my cousin almost hit a car. The driver was furious and he started to insult us like "son of..." or "What the hell is your problem". My cousin was so scared that he decided to keep driving but the driver started to use the horn of the car. We were like "what was his problem"...
After that we went to the pool. The next day we all went to lunch to a restaurant called “Las piedras”. It was in front of the beach and there were a lot of Big Rocks were you can climb. I tried once but I fell down…
The next day we came back to San José. It was a great trip.
Friday, 3 April 2009
Ticos customs by Felipe Ibañez
Well, first of all, ticos are called the people that are living in Costa Rica.
In our country football is the most important thing even though we have a horrible football team. Football is the sport that everyone knows. We think our national football team is the best of Centro America, but that’s a lie. Of course we win a lot of matches against all of them but here the problem is that we treat the football players as The Best…
We are Xenophobic. We hate the “nicas” well not all of ticos but it’s true. We make a lot of jokes of them. Nicas are ding jobs that not every tico made, like house made. Its like normal to see a nica as a house made.
We have one unique expression that almost everyone uses. The “pura vida” phrase means a lot for us. It could be like “HI” or “How are you doing”… Also it’s the word “mae”. For us Mae means like “hey man” or “Hi”. We use a lot that word. Mae it’s just like bro in the USA. Almost everyone uses those expressions in order to communicate.
We are always complaining of EVERYTHING and instead of doing something we just blame other people.
Also we have like a tradition of being late. We are always being late for EVERYTHING! For example: IF you get an invitation to a party in the invitation will say: starts at 8 pm. Even though you know people will arrive at 9. That’s the idea.
We have our traditional food like the Gallo Pinto or Casado. Gallo Pinto it’s the mix of rice and beans. Casado it’s a dish with your favorite type of meat with rice, beans and salads.
We are a great contry but we would be a lot much better if we change drastically our habits.
In our country football is the most important thing even though we have a horrible football team. Football is the sport that everyone knows. We think our national football team is the best of Centro America, but that’s a lie. Of course we win a lot of matches against all of them but here the problem is that we treat the football players as The Best…
We are Xenophobic. We hate the “nicas” well not all of ticos but it’s true. We make a lot of jokes of them. Nicas are ding jobs that not every tico made, like house made. Its like normal to see a nica as a house made.
We have one unique expression that almost everyone uses. The “pura vida” phrase means a lot for us. It could be like “HI” or “How are you doing”… Also it’s the word “mae”. For us Mae means like “hey man” or “Hi”. We use a lot that word. Mae it’s just like bro in the USA. Almost everyone uses those expressions in order to communicate.
We are always complaining of EVERYTHING and instead of doing something we just blame other people.
Also we have like a tradition of being late. We are always being late for EVERYTHING! For example: IF you get an invitation to a party in the invitation will say: starts at 8 pm. Even though you know people will arrive at 9. That’s the idea.
We have our traditional food like the Gallo Pinto or Casado. Gallo Pinto it’s the mix of rice and beans. Casado it’s a dish with your favorite type of meat with rice, beans and salads.
We are a great contry but we would be a lot much better if we change drastically our habits.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Monday, 30 March 2009
Our customs (by Ximena)
Where to start? There so much to say about us, so I'll be brief.
Most of ticos love soccer as much as their mothers. We admit that we are irresponsible and that we are always late for everything. We think we are the best country in
We are xenophobic. When something goes wrong we always blame on the Nicaraguan or Colombian people.
We are always complaining about everything instead of doing something about it.
We call our selves a "pacific country" for the fact that we don't have an official army. But we only have to see our streets or the news to see that we are in war among our selves; because we have become in very violent people.
The thing is, I'd like to say something good about us but we have to be realistic: we are not going to change.
Adventurous experience?? by Ximena
It was really difficult for me to found an "adventurous experience” since I've never done rafting or canopy or stuff like those. But anyway, I'll just tell the first thing that came to my mind!.
Last year, I went to 
exchange. I stayed there for 2 weeks. The family I got was very nice and they treat me really well. The thing is that they were so nice that they decided to invite us to
It was a 6 hours trip by car, almost like going to Guanacaste from
First, we went to the
I wanted to see the fountain that is outside the Bellagio so we went to look for it. It wasn't as easy as it sounds. We had to use a map, because, the blocks there are weird. Finally we found it. It was just beautiful and we could see the show with water and light they have. I had jelly legs for been there, watching that.
After that we were thirsty and hungry. So we went to the Vennician to take a bite. We didn't have much time so we just took a swig of our shakes and go. This hotel's ceiling is paint like the sky, so you feel like it is at open air. And off course, I saw the fake "gondolas".
Then we went to the Caesar's Palace which is my favorite hotel. The decoration was perfect. We could see the madness of the casinos. But they have lots of shops too, like GAP, channel, Armani, souvenirs stores, etc. We went to a gigantic candy shop. I bought a bunch of sweets there, all kind of delicious candy! Finally, we went to the M&M shop.
This was one of my greatest experiences ever. I'm just looking forward to go again with 21!. I had a great time.
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