El Clasico!

This past week was very nice and relaxing and not too busy. I stayed home all weekend, so that was nice to sleep in. Lupe and I explored San Jose all day Saturday and bought ice cream cones for fifty cents and sat on a park bench and watched the ticos. Saturday night Danny and Lupe and I went back to El Taller de Artistas and stayed there for five hours chatting and laughing. And we got ourselves some free drinks (Sangria...amazing) along with our dessert and coffee. Sunday we went to two church services (and I might have fallen asleep in both sermons) but the worship was good and it was fun to meet some ticos.
So my activities committee skills came in handy this past week. I went downtown with Fiesha and we bought over thirty tickets for the biggest futbol game of the year, the Clasico between Saprissa and El Liga. Then we sold the tickets to the students, rented a tour bus, and headed to the game! It was so incredible! So much energy. And again, the ticos had trouble using the camera so we have a finger in the corner and not quite the desired effect, but we were super close to the action. And it was incredible. You can see Lupe was excited. She might have been eating some of the peanuts they sold. That or a juice box, hamburger, or ice cream. All in carboard boxes...a different type of vendor than at Safeco that's for sure.
This is how close we were! I loved the game, cheered for Saprissa, they won, and we watched the fans go wild in the stands (we are talking fire torches, toilet paper, drums, and painted chests like crazy).
On Friday our class took a field trip to the Costa Rican art museum. It was actually the first international airport of Costa Rica, as you can see by the control tower, and was pretty interesting. BUT I was super tired from staying out late at Castro's salsa dance club, so I was very grateful when we didn't have to walk around anymore and we could have our picnic in the park nearby. No more thursday night dancing in heels for me, it was killer!
Friday night we had a super "american" night of going to the mall, getting ice cream, and watching "Baila con Pasion" (or step up in english...not really a translation). I loved the movie and us girls has so much fun in the theatre, since we were like the only ones in there.
Here we are helping Argelis out in the kitchen making some limonada (Lime-ade) and chopping something...I don't exactly remember why I had a knife. But it was super fun and hopefully I can transfer some of my Costa Rican cooking techniques to the kitchens back home, because the food here is good! And, as I tell my host mom every day, "Voy a engordar mucho porque su comida me pone gordita." (which means I am going to gain a lot of weight because the food makes me a little fatty).