day one: college station, tx to san jose, costa rica

lee took me to the airport, got there around 4:10 and was suppose to depart at 5:55pm. got checked in etc. and went to the fox sports bar to watch overtime of the argentina vs. mexico game. ordered a sam adams and saw perhaps the greatest goal of the worldcup thus far and argentina won 2-1. while in the airport i also saw a huge black guy yelling at someone on his phone saying it was "f'in over" and went on a 5 minute tirade. plane ended up leaving 50 minutes late, typical continental, but we cut the flight time by 40 minutes to 3 hours 5 minutes. lucky me got the middle seat which is not as cool as it sounds for a 6 ft 4 guy. the whole flight i was disturbed by the talking on the intercom because they had to say everthing twice: once in english then in spanish. met some girl from lsu on the flight who was sitting next to me, a sophomore and an avid t.u. fan (go figure). she's studying at the same school as i am but on the coast instead of the cloud forest. i noticed she was reading a physics book and she had to be the slowest reader i've ever seen. on the entire flight she read maybe 15 pages tops. we get to the B&B where we will be spending our first night around 10pm and i get settled hahain. i'm staying in a room w/ 4 bunk beds and 2 other guys. both of them are fairly cool and one is an aggie, class of '08 which made things cool. brad, the aggie, is studying 3 weeks in monteverde and 2 more in heredia, the exact same schedule i'm on. i hung out outside for a while and talked to everyone; they seemed much more cultured than me. i talked to a guy who is moving to his 4th different country and he's 22 and a lady who's visited egypt 5 times. i was tired from travelling and went to sleep around 11:30.