Busy worker bee vs. Filling up the day to waste time

Well Semana Santa is over and San Jose has come back alive. The streets are full of bumper to bumper traffic, the boardwalk in downtown is full of people walking with a purpose and all the storefront are open for business. Ryan has continued to be busy as ever working at learning the ropes and ‘how to’ run the hostel. Good news is that the boss said in a month’s time or so Ryan will know enough to completely be in charge of the San Jose location and entitled to a FAT raise. Ryan’s optimistic that this opportunity will soon turn into an unexpected cash bank for us. Which of course is advantageous for our future travels in South America.

I on the other hand am still moseying around the house waiting for my job at the British Institute to start in May. But in the meantime I am trying to keep myself busy. I am still going to the aerobics class with my roommate, whom has proven to be a motivated workout partner which from my experience is hard to find. Then I practice learning Spanish with Rosetta Stone and/or watch Spanish TV. I have also become a regular chef. Almost every day I cook up something new and creative. Recently I have made a Costa Rican beet salad, Argentinean chimichurri sauce, Vietnamese vermicelli noodle bowl and an Italian zesty potato salad. All with my own twist of course! I have even started writing my recipes down and are thinking of making a cookbook and/or save them for my café one day (Yeah lots of time on my hands).

Costa Rican beet salad

Argentinean chimichurri sauce

Vietnamese vermicelli noodle bowl

But even more exciting, as a result of my currently boundless free time, my parents decided to buy me a plane ticket home to visit. And YES I mean visit!!! I have a round-trip ticket there to California and back to Costa Rica. At first I was very hesitant about the trip because I personally thought it would be cheating for me to go home when Ryan and I said we would be gone for 3-5 years. Like I am on the Amazing Race or Survivor or something. Haha. But after some reassurance from Ryan and reevaluating on my own behalf I decided I guess a small trip home and getting to hangout wit h my family would be better than sitting around here for the next two weeks till I start my job. SO I am flying back home next Wednesday, April 14th for two weeks. The sad part is that Ryan can’t come with. He has to stay here and continue working; though I don’t think he is very disappointed. Like I have said before he is loving “learning the ropes” and always comes home and tells me all about his day.

So for some of you who read my blog, See you soon!

written by

ryan & debbrial on April 8, 2010 from San Jose, Costa Rica

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

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