Today’s factoid is that my 21st birthday is two tumultuous months from now. And now to pick up from where I left off...
I had made all these “contingency” and “last resort” plans which I left for Taylor in her email box. But with no confirmation I decided to join the girls at dinner which lasted until 7ish and we grabbed a couple taxis up to Tibas for the game. The traffic was crazy, there were folks clad in uniforms and flag everywhere, every restaurant and bar packed...very much like UConn in February 2006. Best sporting event I’ve ever been to is still Villanova at Connecticut 2/28/06.
Met Taylor, Fei and Monica (another student from Wellesley) at the McDonalds in Tibas (they had only been waiting for an hour) and after fighting about email and stealing some fries we reconciled and headed towards the stadium. Here’s where my stupidity gets the best of me. Last year I was super cognizant about like watching my wallet and other large rowdy crowd tenets.
Sort of might of rushed into the crowd a little excited and then into a wall to wall, fire code-failing bar and didn’t come back out with Mr. wallet. So, yea, got pick-pocketed and I’m very much without money these days, but luckily I don’t need any on station. Being distraught about the wallet, the game wasn’t as enjoyable as expected, but it was still super exciting and we ended up with midfield third row seats. The action was in your face like whoa. Check the video from the game. Costa Rica scored two goals quick in the first half and Granada struggled to send the ball in the direction of the net. Another garbage goal in waning minutes and Costa Rica went on to a 3-0 victory an into a winners round robin pool for a ticket to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
After the game (~10:00 p.m.) we huddled up at the Mickey D’s to make sure we had everyone. The four Wellesley girls and I took a bus into the city and a taxi to the apartment. Everyone was pretty tired and after watching a little Pirates of the Caribbean and The Mummy we all retired to bed. The others ended up going out to meet a fellow researcher in San Jose.
Taylor, Fei and I were up at 8:00 a.m. to grab some grub and take a taxi to the bus station for our trip back to La Selva. The bus ride was quick and we were back for lunch at the station. Didn’t do much of anything Sunday until playing another great game of ultimate before dinner. Passed up on movie night and hit the sack hard.
Yesterday was a field day with Taylor, Fei and Enrique. We visited two plots to identify and tag trees. Stupid me forgot to bring the diameter tape, which wasn’t a huge setback, but didn’t help productivity much. Also the wettest day in the field ever. Once we got to the first plot it started dumping and didn’t lay off until late afternoon. At some point I probably had a liter of water in each boot. Nonetheless, we got a lot of work done and tagged past tree 150 out of 400 (as that’s all the tags I bought).
Today will be a hodgepodge of activity ranging from making bags for wood tomorrow to maybe doing some laundry and reading some things. New York at Pittsburgh is on TV, so that will consume my evening followed by “Weeds.” Thanks for reading everybody!
BP
3 comments:
i guess you're gonna have to start collecting cans like your first picture in order to get some money now. good thing they didnt take your camera, casey could have at least used that as an excuse for not posting pictures.
so lazy should have bought more tags how hard could it be to tag 400 trees?
no bottle return in costa rica, but that's the least of their worries, the first being lack of daylight savings time. it annoys me more every day. sunrise at 5:00 am (useless) and sunset at 615 (depressing)
tagging's easy, coring's hard, finding the right trees is hard. 400 is the scope of the project.
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