day 22: monteverde to san joaquin de flores

the drive to san joaquin was about as boring as i expected it to be. i got picked up at 830, stopped once for snacks, and got to my new house by 130. they say moving from monteverde to san joaquin is like going from a motel 6 to the ritz carlton and i think i agree. although my house isnt huge it definitely has a lot of things my old house didnt, ie. tiled flores, comfortable beds, and a really hot shower. once i got there my papa tico talked to me for about 30 mins really, really fast but i was able to keep up nicely. the next 30 mins were then spent with me nodding and pretending like i knew what was going on. after that it started to storm really hard for about 45 minutes. towards the end the water crept through all the doors and started to flood the house. they assured me this was the first time it had ever happened but nonethless, i helped them sweep all the water out for 30 mins or so. the bad part was that as we were sweeping water out more and more was coming in but it eventually let up and things went back to normal. my family is really nice and you can tell that the dad really wants to hang out with me because i think theyve had mainly female students. steve flew into costa today so i gave him a call, figured out where he lived and walked over to his place. hes staying with a family that another one of our friends lived with last summer (matt johnson) so we all talked about matt and chris, except they referred to chris as baracho. his family is really cool and i ended up eating dinner there and just sitting around talking till 730ish. after that steve and headed to the local american hangout, alexs bar, except no students were there. we hung out, shot some pool, i was offered drugs twice and we went home around 930. good first day in a new place, i think its going to be awesome to have steve here to take on costa rica with me. weve already planned out some things for this week like repelling down water falls and manuel antonio this weekend. maybe bungee jumping, i dont know, i dont know if well have enough time.