Pura Vida Part I

I took these quotes from my facebook as a start to this series of traveling blogs. Costa Rica was such an amazing experience for me and i learned a lot about life and myself. it was not the first time out of the country...but only the 2nd time that counted (the first was Mexico when I was 6 and the 2nd was Paris when I was in 10th grade). but Costa Rica is where everything changed in my life. here are a few quotes that sum up some of the best times i had there. hope they make sense.

(Disclaimer: even though most people who read this wont think its funny, there are about 5 people in the world who think its hilarious and will cry from laughing so hard every time they read it. thats enough for me. throwback to fall 05, ISA in Costa Rica)

Quotes from Costa Rica:
Unofficial way of life: Tranquila Matadora...translation: chill killa ( first introduced by a cute Tica guy who my girl Honeybee quickly snatched up. he was probably high at the time)
Honeybee: (as we chill at a reggae club where we are constantly harrassed by drunk ass costa ricans) "Me gusta you....oooh, no me gusta him"
"hey novio" to Shaun...poor thing, LOL (in response to Shaun, our ever so respectful late 20's homeboy who was in the program with us. always the gentleman, he never took advantage of Honey despite all of her flirting. always funny to watch him get molested)
"Im gonna f*****cate with Colon!!!! Im just playin....(hahaha) no im not" (actually...she wasn't playing. it went dooooooown in Costa Rica...not me tho!)
"No yo tiengue"
PERDON!!!
Heavenlymaize, yo a** is ignorant.
Get the f*** outta here! (i picked up this phrase for months afterwards. this was said whenever somebody said something unbelievable by Honeybee)
Buenos Dais shawty! (i love the mix of spanish, spanglish, and ghetto english...always classic)
"Your acting like a b*tch a** baby" (in response to her cute Costa Rican's homeboy. he tried to have a lil fling with our other girl and he acted like...well, read the quote)
"Diez y Cinco" (another example of what happens when people don't focus on spanish in a spanish-speaking country. lol)
"Porque?" (to everything she doesn't understand)
"Chaaaayze" (Really it says cheese but she said it like that when she was imitating a video hoe)
"she hit me in the neck with an umbrella and it left a scratch on my neck. then when asked her why she did it, she said she wanted to know if it could be used a a weapon" (ok so here was the deal. we had a very...uh...unique friend named Sarafina [named changed to protect the guilty]. she liked Honeybee's dude and continuously flirted with him, but to no avail. Honey was all that he was focused on. so eventually, Sarafina got upset. and so, she decides to use her umbrella as a device to plot her revenge)

My mama tica (host mom): keep in mind that she speaks spanish. so everything is said with an accent in limited english.
yea baby, yea
Es muy weird

FiFi: sorry (with a spanish accent)

Sarafina:
Taxistas Tramposas!!! (actually, the cab drivers were the biggest jerks ever. they were constantly tryna rip us off and eventually we refused to pay one of them because he tried to take the 15 minute ride to a bar that was 5 minutes away. bastard)
Cual es su problema? (after being stopped at the border. soooo here is the story. she tells us that she was stopped for some bogus reason. what really happened was she almost got caught smuggling weed across the border from Nicaragua to Costa Rica. the dogs sniffed it on the bus and she got held up.)
she put a spell on me (she stays with some chick while visiting Cuba. the lady puts a spell on her in the middle of the night and for the next few days, she can't use the bathroom. she also gets jacked for all of her stuff by some hot Cubano after trusting him enough to have him in her spot. and she was surprised she got robbed...sigh. sexiness doesn't mean they won't rob u. duh. )

Me:
girl i know why ur sick. u better be careful of those STDs. U might get Sexually Transmitted Dengue. (so this was after some nasty Jersey girl gets sick, which means Dengue and some other girl gets Mono. yuckity yuck yuck)
My family came on a ship too, but it sure as hell wasnt no Mayflower....why ya'll laughin, im serious. (i'm sorry, coming on the Mayflower is way different than the damn Amistad. feel me?)
We're definitely gonna die (as i watch the chaos of cars as we try to cross the street. if u think LA driving is bad, go to a foreign country. ur opinion will be forever changed)

hopefully it makes sense. if not, i'm entertained for simply remembering these things. man, almost 4 years ago and it almost feels like yesterday.

PURA VIDA