Internet... finally
Ok so I know that it has been WAY too long since I have updated the blog. I apologize. Before I had the excuse that I didn't have regular internet access (which I didn't) and that made it hard to update all the time (which it did) but now I have no such excuse because in my new apartment (YAY!!) we have wireless internet. So get ready for lots of blog updates. Luckily for everyone reading this I have been keeping a journal while staying here and I am happy to report that I have actually been keeping up with it! I have always tried to keep journals before and it has never worked. You know the drill you write in the journal like three times and then stop because it's boring and then maybe you go back and write a little bit a couple of days later and then you just end up stopping because there is so much that has happened that you have to catch up on writing so you give up. I can't even tell you how many times I have done that. This time has been different though and I think a large part of it is because I didn't have internet. I could spend hours of time on the internet looking at unimportant things (thank you facebook and Perez Hilton) which is what I normally would be doing instead of say writing in a journal. But when those options are closed to you journal writing is what I ended up doing. So now begins the catch up blog post....
January 19, 2010 (Tuesday)
So after going to the beach the first Monday I was here and seeing Andy and Courtney's new apartment, Tuesday Rachel and I woke up and went to Mama Tica's house to begin the job search on the internet. It quickly became apparent that Ticos don't really use the internet for finding jobs, or apartments/houses for that matter. The majority of stuff is found through networking and hearing about things through people you meet. There is also Channel 18 which is essentially a running classified ad on channel 18 on television. So we ended up in the end cleaning up our resumes to get them ready for getting teaching jobs and also made another resume more geared towards more general jobs like maybe at a hotel or something. That afternoon we ended up going back to the beach, which of course we said we were not going to do because we needed to find jobs, but it is so easy to validate it to yourself as "Well we got our resumes ready to find jobs this morning... so we can go back to the beach this afternoon." It is just too tempting NOT to go to the beach here and also the afternoon is just so hot that all you want to do is go jump in the water... so we did.
January 20, 2010 (Wednesday)
Today Rachel and I walked up to the TEFL school to see if any of the instructors knew of any job openings, which of course they didn't, and to print out our resumes to give out to people. Afterwards we stuck around to use the internet to look for more job postings online and I ended up finding a posting in Manuel Antonio for a spa that needed a receptionist. Both Rachel and I applied for the job, we figured it never helps to be picky so we are applying to everything. Then we walked back into Quepos to get some lunch and I ended up getting batido (smoothie) with my sandwich. I am totally loving the smoothies here, just like last time, and currently I am averaging one a day. My favorites are mango, pineapple, and passion fruit (maracuyá) right now. They are sooooo good! Afterwards we went back home to change to go to the beach again... yes I am a beach bum right now and loving it. However, we did bring copies of our resumes to the beach because we planned to stop by this hostel on the way back to Quepos. In December Rachel stayed at this hostel before coming back to the states and the owner had mentioned that he might need some work in January. We walked in and ended up talking to the manager named Gabriela (all in Spanish of course) and both of us got a trial run for the receptionist position. I am going tomorrow from 7-10AM and Rachel is going 6-9PM. That will make tomorrow morning interesting after going out to Ladies Night at Bamboo Jam tonight.... Oh well. Before going to Bamboo Jam Rachel and I stopped by Mama Tica's house to pick up Rich and also to check our email. We both got responses from the spa and we are supposed to call tomorrow to schedule an interview. Yay! So on we went to Bamboo Jam where we paid our cover of 2,000 colones (up from 1,000 in December because high season is starting) to drink all the rum and vodka drinks we wanted until 11:30. The music is reggaeton and I am really loving that right now. So we all danced the night away and I ended up coming home at like 12:30 (not too bad!) and set my alarm for 5:45 to get up for my interview!
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