Fridays!

        So. Friday is our day of lectures. We get to the station at nine, have lectures until lunch, and a single lecture after. Below? The fruits of our labors (hah.) We're terribly productive. 

Fruit loop bird mosaic, courtesy of Erika.

       After our lectures at the Biological Station, we head down as a group to CPI, the Spanish Immersion Institute, and have class until dinner. Yesterday, we were treated to a Costa Rican cooking class, complete with awesomely flattering hair nets. I'd post more pictures, but my peers would probably shun me. Yeeeeee hairnets!

We made a Guanacaste-inspired dinner of fried cornflour "zapatos" which we filled with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, parsley, naranja, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, black beans, stewed chicken and vegetables, and carne with onions, parsley, and squash. Pretty delicious. 

Annnnnnnnd after that: house party with Alan Masters and the rest of the TA's. 

        You'll have to peruse facebook for the people pictures. Darwin, Wallace, and Moncho are preparing two birthday cakes to make sure that Bailey, Audrey, and Kyra are properly celebrated in the picture above---the cake and MORE food was followed up by drinking and singalongs, and free access to Alan's music room. His violin and harmonica solos are fantastic: it was awesome to be back on a porch with night air and music. I really miss that part of our field trips: 24/7 time with the crazy biologist family that is CIEE, voices rising and falling and cracking and interspersed with laughter, or fantastically, miraculously in tune. Less than a month with these lovely people now. Gack. 

Anyway. 

It's Saturday and it's raining. 

Tonight I'm headed to the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Preserve--we'll see how it goes. 

Hopefully owly. 

Cheers!