go to costa rica

Rose is going to Costa Rica this summer to do a community service project in a village. Maybe she could see if the local school could use a computer or two. And then, we could get some computers from InterConnection and bring them down during Xmas break 2009, and install them.

We could also do a little paddling or see a volcano too :-)

Everything is paid for! Can’t wait for July 31!

i’ve currently got enough to pay the first £900 payment, which isn’t going to be demanded until july! hooray.
to prepare for costa rica, i also need to kit up, get my jabs and learn some spanish. as well as get physically fitter,because i’m going to be trekking through the rainforest and stuff.
worked out if i keep saving the way i have been, i’ll have £600 ish to spend on new kit. Might finally get a decent sleeping bag!

i think i’m becoming a little over-zealous about this one.
the other day, i took out £100 to save away. this meant that i had no money to buy my lunch yesterday. it seems i’ll make it to costa rica, but on a very empty stomach with ripped up rags for clothes and numerous complaints from national rail for skipping the ticket machine.

So we have our itinerary set. We’re going to visit the Arenal Volcano, Baldi Hot Springs, La Fortuna Waterfall, Monteverde Cloud Forest, Manuel Antonio beach and national reserve, and we’re going to do some zip lining too! We’re spending our last night in San Jose, so maybe we can check out the nightlife there. We just have to make the payment for the hotels/transportation/activities which is costing us about $660 each. Not too bad I suppose. That means the trip for each of us is costing just a bit over $1000.

My fiance told me that we could make the payment by June 15 so hopefully the prices for everything stays the same by that time. SO EXCITING!

I bought my plane ticket as well as my fiance’s plane ticket for his birthday. We are headed to Costa Rica from July 31 until August 7. Next is to work on getting hotels and having activities to do. I feel as though the REAL adventure would be to just get off a bus and wait for people to come up and offer us a cheap room, but I’m more of the structured type. I want to know what I’m doing before I go. I dunno, maybe we’ll wing it in one of the cities we go to and try adventure once.

every so often, usually when i’m looking at my bank balance, i get very excited about costa rica.
i’ve been thinking about my kit list. i work in an outdoorsy sort of shop, so in my head i’ve been compiling a list of all the stuff i want to take with me.
if i finish my savings target early (which hopefully i will do), i may just EXPLODE.

So I had been planning this trip for the end of July with my fiancee, but then I gave up on it. For one, this summer is probably going to be busy for me considering that I’m going to be working this summer and I’m not sure how keen they would be about me taking off for Costa Rica. So, I kind of put it on the back burner, but now I really want to go again. The trip is pretty much planned, but now I just have to find some cheap flights there.

We’re going to Arenal, Monteverde, Manuel Antonio, and San Jose. <3

righto, all’s well so far.
in fact, i am AHEAD of target. This is frankly terrifyingly organised.
£350 pounds has been paid as a deposit.
zusaetzlich, i’ve squirrelled away £150 this month, and i’ve got £125 in silver in a box in my room. feel slightly pirate-like. wish it was silver doubloons, not just twenty ps. wish i had a parrot.
excellent.

I will go visit my friends Selena and Andrea. Andrea doesn’t return from Africa until June, so I guess i will go sometime after she arrives. I plan to visit my friends and then to stay and enjoy the country and the culture, explore lots and learn SPANISH!!!!
I am excited.