Breakfast: Gallo Pinto, scrambled eggs, coffee
Lunch: Mashed potatoes, stewed chicken en salsa, rice ($5.00)
Dinner: Papa Johns delivered to hotel (3 large pizzas & 3liters of pepsi for $24)
This training has been HARD! And the job is going to be even harder! If anybody asks me what a tour leader does, the answer is... YES! Today was kinda fun though. We talked about different terms and conditions and how to handle different situations with passengers. It was funny though, the tour leader manual is very professionally written and the words masterfully crafted until it gets to the section on sexual relations between tour leaders and passengers. The first bullet just has big bold letters that says ¨Do NOT fuck the passengers!¨ We talked about all situations that could result from that for a good 20-30 minutes and heard some of Carolina´s stories. passengers with other passengers, leaders with passengers, pax with locals, leaders with locals... you name it!
I found out my assignment! Well... My first assignment. The high season is just starting, so the scheduling office had to make a bit of a scramble to get all of the routes covered. I leave tomorrow for a group training trip of the route I am going to start on. It is a nine-day tour in Costa Rica that starts in San Jose then goes to the town of La Fortuna, right by the volcano Arenal. We then ride on horseback to Monteverde where there is one of the nicest rainforests in all of Central America before going south to the Central Pacific to the beaches of Manuel Antonio and then back to San Jose.
After this training trip I get 9 days off until I run it solo on December 23. I will be spending Christmas in La Fortuna and New Years in San Jose. Thankfully, a few of my friends down here will also be in San Jose for New Years so we are definitely going to get together and party like a Tico rockstar! One of my friends down here has an apartment in San Jose and was kind enough to let me stay with her during my nine days off, or we might go spend a few days on the beach.
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So how does it work? Do you work for 9 days and then are off for a few days? Do they put you up, or do you need to get your own apartment? It almost seems like they should be putting you up for the 9 days you are off.
Look at you with your first assignment :) "Do NOT fuck the passengers" was definitely my favorite part! Well, while you're spending your New Years on beautiful Central American beaches, I'll be buying used furniture and working my ass off to make rent...you better enjoy it all for the both of us! And I want a postcard.... :)
TAYLOR!!!
I loved reading your blog. I am so proud of you. My blog is
chortdomer@blogspot.com so you can read my stuff, too. Have some fun, Puddin'
TAYYYLLORR!!! Ok, we at the office are all completely jealous of your adventure. We're keeping an eye on your blog. Continue with the fun!
-Jamie Larson
Ok, in San Jose, go to A La Lena. Order the pizza, you can get all different kinds, like 4 different types in one order. There are different sauces they bring out, like garlic butter sauce, and this amazingly spicy orange colored one. I want to go back so bad! I'm glad you are having fun.
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