27. kesäkuuta 2009

Este mundo hay mucha gente, pero; no hay nadie como tu

The title of this note cames from a Calle 13's song, translation is something like: this world has a lot of people, but nobody like you.
This world definedly has a lot of people! I have met so many amazing persons in this trip, a really enjoyed my time with you guys... Not to mention Molly, my love, I was together with 5 weeks 24/7. After that travelling alone felt really lonely, more than in my first weeks. We kept finding ourselves in so weird situations sometimes, to mention one: having a salsa/cumbia/merengue-lessons with the coastguards. In an empty bar, in thursday evening, somewhere along the dirty road to Matapalo. They kept telling that part of their work could be guarding the turist girls, but taking them dancing doesn´t really help hunting cocaine right? Our trips to party, oi por Dios, that´s a thing itself.

This is my last note from Costa Rica, too sad!
The last week i spend in Matapalo, an amazing place with amazing people. That is THE Life i want to live - beautiful, peaceful and so much more that i don't have have the words to describe it. Pura Vida, that´s what i love.

The only bad thing that i really hate, is the fucking BUGS, cara pichas (= bastards), that eats me alive and keep me itchy and scratching myself all night long...hijueputa! well you get the picture.
Okey, having sand everywere all the time, that´s other thing I won´t miss. None of the ASVO camps had hot showers or washing machines, so going back home and not having to do my laundry by hands will be like heaven.

Examples of the works I have done with ASVO in these 10 weeks:
-carrying GRAVEL (that i won´t forget, too many hours of doing that)
-carrying garbage
-maintening roads with machetes
-shavelling sand, carrying sand, making and moving sandbags (other thing i will remember!)
-hunting butterflies
-feeding the pig (that´s the fun part)
-bathing the dog
-hiking in the rainforest, one time while carrying wood to maintenance the trails
and ofcourse lots of cleaning, almost everyday, every project

I worked in three different turtle projects, and only in one i saw turtles. In Buenavista we had to do hachery shifts trought the nights, even tought there WAS NO NESTS. That tells something about the camp and its management, right? In the Caribbean patrols were 4 hours, 12 kilometeres, but it wasn´t so bad, because we always saw turles. In Matapalo it was only boring, cause we didn´t see any turtles. In the Caribbean we also did excumasiones in the hatchery, digging up the nests 2 days after it has hached. That was stinky, and one time my nest had A LOT of worms... luckily Oscar, The Biologist, was there to help me (=finish it for me).

I´m gonna miss costarican food so badly, even tought i gained SO MUCH weight with ASVO. I don´t really know how it´s possible by eating rice and beans in every meal, but perhaps it´s just the 3-meals-a-day ready-to-eat easiness.. Anyone who has seen me eating here, can you imagine that i absolute hated beans before i came to CR? :)))

I have been travelling all over Costa Rica, seen so many amazing places and learned new things. For example surfing and boogieboarding now has a special place in my heart. (I didn´t like the ocean and salt water either before I got used to it here) Thanks for my boogiebudy Daniel, i won´t forget you either!
All the beaches, forests, volcanoes, waterfalls etc. took a piece of my heart. And I learned in the hardest way to pack light. Por Dios, why didn´t I bring my backpack?? I seriously tought that going to a camp in the middle of nowhere, without roads, having to cross a river, is possible with a big, heavy suitcase?? Not to mention the public busses... Again, Oscar, The Biologist, saved my day carriyng my princessbag.
Back in Finland handeling money will be difficult - why do I have to pay 5 euros (mas o menos 4000 kol.) for a beer in a bar or 2,2 euros for a little busride, not to mention 4,5 euros for cigarettes and a MONTON of money for taxis?

I absolutely love this country and it´s people. I woudn´t have done anything different in this trip (some things you just have to go trough before you realize, that it can be done differently...). I was definedly having the time of my life, and the thanks for that belongs to all the people that make my trip so perfect. So thank you, if you feel you´r one of them.

Now i have my very last night left, that i´m gonna party in San Jose´s Escazu, with my very special tico. Salsa Lizanos and Imperials are packed, last platanos and yucas eaten. I have to be in the airport tomorrow at 5 a.m., that´s gonna be fun 20-hours-travel...

Molly has desided to come back to Costa Rica and so have I. So watch out ticos,
I'LL BE BACK!

Pura vida mae