costa rica entry 4: ¿how do you say PMS en español?
Heh. So let´s start with yesterday evening. One of my family´s very nice looking cousins came over with his friend? and cooked us dinner. It was amazingly good. They spoke in turbospanish the whole evening and I could hardly follow it, much less join in the conversation so I took my bad spanish and watched a cheesy movie instead. This morning was kind of rough for me. I think it´s just your basic case of PMS which is weird because you know, I´ve never noticed PMS before. Generally that´s just my personality but I´m nice here. Anyways, if you´re a calm nice person normally I guess it could suck like this morning. I got up and didn´t see anyone else so I grabbed some breakfast. I still feel a little invasive poking around in their cupboards for a cup or whatever. Since I still hadn´t seen anyone I went and watched TV in my pajamas. A little bit later my Costa Rican mother came into the room and asked me if I was ready to go. What? Yeah, I had no clue either. So I had about 15 minutes to get ready and I desperately wanted to shower and BLOWDRY MY HAIR. I haven´t, up until about an hour ago been able to blow dry my hair... it´s just been up in a bun. Well I felt so so ugly because I had a huge zit AND my hair was in the librarian bun that wasn´t working today and I was rushed and PMS. It was the first time I´ve felt angry or stressed while I was down here. It scared me too - because a) I realized that such silly anger is just commonplace at home and b) I didn´t want to be a brat to my family. Today they took me to see interesting places in Cartago, which is their province/town. I saw this beautiful valley and their dam and a college campus and a resort and a river and the oldest church in Costa Rica. They asked me what religion I was so I had a go at explaining my family´s complicated Catholic and not Catholic thing. Fortunately they are not frequent churchgoers. It was nice and thoughI was completely zoned out a lot of the time I was calm by the time I got home. This afternoon everyone left for a bit so I read (currently One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest) and then took a shower and DRYED MY HAIR!!!!! God I feel so much less ugly now. I hate rocking the bun for days on end and showering at night instead of the morning so that my hair is dirty when I go anywhere. Yes, I am very vain deep down and when I don´t spend enough time on myself I get rather agitated. Hah. Anyways not sure what the deal is for tomorrow and/or this weekend or even dinner for tonight! They mentioned something about a 3 day trip to a park but I have no idea ´cause I haven´t heard about it since. yep, but I´m feeling better now so whatever. Keep in touch all of you. (Like the one person who reads this.) This is Nerd signing off.