Last Day of Vacation

Today OTSers started to converge on Hotel City One.  I've met about 10 of them so far (there will be 22 of us total, plus 3 instructors).  They all seem like interesting people, of course -- it will be fun to get to know everyone over the next few weeks.  At least, it should be mostly fun.  Some of it will probably be annoying.  :)

I went walking in downtown San Jose with Christina and Matt this afternoon, saw some parrots!  And a little yellow warbler I couldn't identify -- no surprise there.  We ate some really greasy food and I bought a belt.  For some reason when I was packing I thought it would be a good idea to save space by not taking a belt.  It was not a good idea.  And if I lose any weight on my anticipated diet of beans and rice, it could become a very bad idea indeed.  Luckily we're all safe from that now.

Tomorrow morning we will go en masse to the OTS office at the University of Costa Rica for a little intro and some paperwork, and then pile onto a bus for the 4-5 hour ride to our first site, Palo Verde.  It's a national park with a fresh water marsh and tropical dry forest (deciduous lowland).  Great for water birds, apparently.  Hopefully I'll have some pictures to share in the next few days.