Estoy en mi Charco

Location : San Jose

Breakfast: Omelette, gallo pinto, papaya, mango, yucca, pineapple juice and coffee. (free at hotel)
Lunch: Fried fish, beans and rice, fried plantains, salad at Soda Rodriguez (about $5)
Dinner: Steak w onions, papas, salad at Soda Isabel (2600 colones)

I´m at the host hotel in San Jose with the other guides. I already love these people! There are 8 of us total - Four Americans, one russian living in Canada, one native Canadian, one French ex-patriot living in Nicaragua, and one native Costa Rican. Our first day of training was pretty easy, so we went to the store and bought some beer and hung out in the hotel garden drinking and playing guitar until we were too loud and they told us to leave. We went to the Cafe Mundo in Barrio Aranjuez in San Jose. We proceeded to drink more. Dinner ended with all of us singing REM songs while they were trying to close the place down. I already love the people I´m here with and some of us are talking about splitting an apartment in San Jose. We´ll see.

I started training yesterday. Holy hell there is a lot to do with this job. It definitely isn´t going to be easy. Today was brutal. We trained for eight hours on just doing the accounting, and we covered about half of it. This is definitely not a job for slacking - I cannot make any small mistakes - Only major psychotic distasters.

I will find out what country I will be starting working in this Friday. I just wish Friday would hurry up and get here!

They are taking really good care of me here. I stayed two nights in a hostel for $12 a night, and only bought a couple meals the two days I was there. Other than that I haven´t spent a dime of my own money. Great success!

My best wishes to everybody back in Texas, Chicago, West Virginia... Todo el mundo!

Buenos suertes y saludos!