Made through the second week of school and I'm definitely going to have a heavier work load this semester than last. As a result I probably won't be traveling as much I did last semester. My load for this semester is: History of Central America, Cities and Urbanism, The Political Economy of Globalization, Ethics and Philosophy and Mandarin. Yup, Mandarin, it actually hasn't been too bad, I have two sweet extremely cheerful young chinese girls teaching my class and while the whole four tone thing I know will probably kill me, so far I've had fun.
I've also had a lot of fun with my new martial art, I wasn't really getting much out of last semester's samurai class, exciting as it seemed on the surface- all those wooden swords and nunchucks. For this semester I'm going to be taking Muay Thai boxing classes at a place literally right next door to my university. I've already been five times in the last two weeks and I love it. Very very exhausting, my abs are currently a tight ball achiness, but we do real boxing, something I never got to do with Krav Maga, and while the sweaty boxing gloves are kind of gross, the high-energy of the classes has been really nice.
This past Wednesday I went to my first real futból/soccer game in Costa Rica. It was a very intense experience, I already had a jersey for the team I was supporting, Saprissa. So chosen because I liked their purple of the other team's black and red and also because my tico friend was taking us I a huge fan of Saprissa. We sat in the Saprissa fan section, which was criss-crossed with huge purple banners and got handed balloons to cheer with during the game. Riot police lined up at the fence at the bottom of our bleachers, a measure which extreme to me since the game we were watching was an early one in the championship. However when we looked down the back and behind the bleachers and saw police collaring some already drunk and belligerent fans early on in the first half I thought the riot police might be a smart move. Especially when a few of the opposing team's fans were trying to exit the stadium and passing thru our section, inciting quite a few curses and a number of drinks and other food items thrown in their general direction. Quite a first futból experience, I just wish someone had actually scored a goal, the game ended zero to zero.
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