Was that a whale?

Falling into bad habits again I see, since I haven't posted in about 3 weeks. I have been busy since Arenal. That next weekend I pulled an all-Spanish weekend when I went to the beaches of Guanacaste with my Tico friend from there, my Peruvian friend and a friend of hers from Peru. Despite not getting all the jokes, I was extremely happy to understand as much as I did.
Guanacaste is a province in Northwest Costa Rica and it is famous for its beautiful Pacific beaches. We visited three,a different one each day: Playa Hermosa, Playa Matapalo and Costa Blanca. That's the order we visited them in and also reflects my least to most favorite. Hermosa is well known and was a little too developed for me, in a country with two extensive coastlines you get to be picky about your beaches. Matapalo was less developed and quite impossibly we spotted a whale jumping from the water around mid-afternoon. My Tico friend's dad told later that the whales don't normally come that far north, but this one must have been special. The experience was incredible, in part just for being so unexpected. Costa Blanca was an itty-bitty beach that is only accessible through an old closed down hotel, a bit strange yes, but it meant that we were the only ones there, which for me equals perfect beach time.
Since Guanacaste I haven't traveled though I did make it into San Jose two weekends ago for a kickboxing championship that I'd been told about in my Muay Thai boxing place. I went with a friend and ended up running into about half the people that go to Muay Thai boxing, I hadn't known, but one of our members was actually competing. He ended up winning and the next day that I went in for a boxing class the first thing the owner did was proudly show me the championship belt, a very large and impressive black leather belt. Other than that not much to report, I'm under a mountain of homework and have finally gotten started on that 30pg history paper, so wish me luck.