Claire and Vic's Costa Rica Blog

Hey all!

We hope you are all well and having as much fun as we are (you hate us right now dont you!!) Lets just put it this way, life is coolio at the beach con muchas fiestas en la noche!

This morning we actiually saw some monkeys in the trees outside school in our break from lessons, it was a family of about 5 and they had babies with them, the romours have been proved true (although we are the last to see them - Victoria was convinced it was the British accent that put them off!). We also saw a huge iguana right outside our hotel room the other day!Our days in Samara have mostly revolved around the changing tide and classes but if we are not in class we are on the beach and visa versa! On Sunday we rented bikes with our friend Sarah from Switzerland and rode to Carillo beach which is just along the coast from Samara, it alot more remote and less developed compared to Samaras one shop! We set up camp and basked in the sun until the tide caught us unawares and almost swept us and everything we had away including the bikes! Luckily we made a quick getaway and biked off into the sunset and ended up in some remote town in the mountains eating ice-cream and cake!! The next morning we decided to take advantage of the bikes and left our hotel room at 6 in the morning for a leisurely bike ride before school at 8am, it was really beautiful with the mist rising and the wild horses grazing in the fields, all the local children were on the way to school and we followed them back!

The nights here are good as there are pleanty of bars to entertains us and our fellow school friends so we normally meet up around 8.30pm at one of the local bars, often in torrential rain wearing waterproofs which is a really good look!! The school has a really nice atmosphere as all the students go out together either drinking, dancing, eating or just hanging at the beach! We have made lots of new friends from Arizona, Texas, Switzeland, Quebec, to mention a few! We are still the only Brits here so our British accent is still a novelty to the fellow Americans, its cool though becuase we are teaching them all our street slang i.e. Mardy, blimey, Sausage roll (for you Amy & Denise) etc!

We have decided to extend our stay one more day and we are travelling to Montizuma on Sunday morning for our next set of adventures to begin!

We may or may not have access to the internet on our volunteer placements which start next week for a month but never the less keep the comments coming and please let us know your news (Leanne keep us posted!)

lots of love,

Victoria and claire xxx