Living young ,wild & free

Veritas had a BBQ for all the international students. It was a nice time , except for the fact that we learned that they defne bbq here much more lightly then we do in the states ` they served very little food so we were all still hungry. I was upset! lol but they had tons of music and free beer.. no complaints there!

They had these drumming bands & dancers come preform ! it was awesome ! They're called "Comparsas" The dancers and drummers dress in colorful costumes and dance and sing. I enjoyed it a lot, and at the end they did a huge conga line.

Comparsa drummers 

At Los Profesionales

Later a bunch of students went over to "Los Profesionales" which is like the popular "college bar", its about a block away from Veritas. It was packed and all we know how to order is Imperiales... which i don't really care for because Imperial taste good & is about 2$. You can tell this bar likes to cater to the internationals because they have there walls covered in pictures of students with the bartenders .. our housemates have a goal to get on that wall ! :] They also play alot of english music .. which i'm not a fan of .. especially when they throw on 50 cent wanksta .... ummm ? lol I requested Promise - Romeo Santos .. and the DJ didn't even have it ! Why did I come to Costa Rica if they're only gonna play english music ? that drives me nuts. Cameron & Megan woo'ed the Local tico guys at the bar and I had to be "that friend" that steps in with my spanish & cockblock . It was great haha They were trying to walk us home and there is no way in hell were gonna let them know where we live .. don't need tico stalkers !


For the weekend Me and Anabel took a trip to Jaco beach .. which was very "sudden & unplanned" to say the least. When we arrived the bus station we realized 3 things ...

1. I didn't have a bathing suit 
2. we didn't know where we were sleeping 
3. we didn't have enough money to survive an entire weekend away from home.

One may ask WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING? .. quite frankly I do not know .. maybe we were overly excited? lol 

Luckily we had a friend coming to Jaco Saturday morning who was able to pick up my wallet at my host home. Ashley saved our lives !

In the mean time we needed to find a Hostel that suited our budget, we located the Jaco inn which charged us $12 / night  ! it was like angel voices singing when we found a place to stay because our worries were starting to make us nervous & we were just about ready to head back home on the next bus.

#hostelprobs

Once we were settled into our rooms, we went to explore. on the way out we were informed of a fun fact : that our hostel had gotten broken into the night before .. GREATTTTT! 



So me and Anabel slept with our wallets and purses that night haha. but the place really wasnt sketchy , its just shiet that happens.That night in Jaco we went out to look for something to do, we got some Gelato & went to a few bars but all the bars play english music. & that really grinds my gears... We were at Club Orange for a while which was good, but it wasnt great..
so we wanderd off to this place down a sketchy alley way called "El Recreo" where it was all locals & spanish music for daysssss.. we had found "home" lol . Me & anabel had a blast , danced and drank a few imperiales. After a while we decided to return to Club Orange--- where the bartender told me We shouldnt have gotten to El Recreo, because we could have gotten killed. once again  .. GREATTTTT! 

Delicious Gelato 

Anabel & I at Club Orange

So we called it a night and headed back to Jaco Inn.. when we arrived we had roommates who were two Swedish backpackers who were 19! friendly gals .. very interesting.

All in all we decided to only stay one night in Jaco , we caught the evening 6:30 bus back to San jose on Saturday with our new adventurous pal Mason who also attends Veritas with us, he is from Oregon. We had seen all that there was to see in Jaco . 

Jaco beach  is a top destination for surfers & backpackers