It was our friend Taisha's birthday last week on the 2nd. After deciding between a jazz café or Cinépolis, she chose cinépolis and invited whoever wanted to come from the program. About ten of us decided to meet at the bus stop and head there together. Something fun to do in the middle of the week! I suppose normally, on our week nights we don't do something so big. We save that for the weekends.
We went to see Contagion!! And if you know anything about the movie, you will know that it takes place in none other than....MINNESOTA!! It was so exciting to see Matt Damon and Gwenyth Paltrow talking about Lake and Lyndale--about 5-10 minutes from my apartment. Anytime they showed the snow (they must have included that to be MN's identifying factor between the other locations of the film), Park Nicollet, or the Armory, I kept hitting Berto on the shoulder and 'scream-whispering' (I'll call it) that it was in Minnesota. And poor Berto never complained about bruises or being distracted. He looked just as amused as I was! How crazy to be so far away from home, yet know that everybody around you-all of your friends from all around the United States and all of the Tico-strangers who were there that night, have now at least heard about Minnesota and Lake and Lyndale. People from New York and California must experience this all the time...like my friend Nicole from California who said she got really excited when they showed her KFC that's just a couple blocks from her house in the movies. Although she said, the movies sometimes wrongfully depict her neighborhood full of gangs and dirty lookin.
A short bus ride away from campus is the Cinépolis movie theater which offers VIP movie seats. Equipped with reclining leather seats with cup holders, handsome young waiters in dress pants and button up's who will come to your seat to take your order from the menus which have food and drinks from crepes, paninis, caramel popcorn, frappuccinos, and cocktails to the traditional popcorn and candy. And the best part--it's so cheap!! In the US, if you go on a date you can expect to pay up to $30 maybe $40 just on two tickets and movie theater candy, pop, and popcorn. For the VIP movie theater it was c 4000 or $8. For a regular movie on a Wednesday it costs about c1,300 or a little under $3.
In all of Costa Rica, if you go see a movie on Wednesday nights, it's 2 for 1! So far in movie theaters I have seen Lion King in 3D, Contagion, and I am making plans to see the fourth Twilight in about 2 weeks.
Small list of other movies I have seen since being in Costa Rica for class: Frida, Volver, La Historia Oficial, and Pedro Páramo.
Here Berto and I are ready to browse the menu...hmmm yes...fancy schmancy
Mom, notice that they have "ESPRESSO" on their menu!! Yes, believe it. I wish you could have been there! We will have to go when you come visit!
Putting our feeeeet uuuup :D How relaxing...
Taisha's Birthday Surprise!!
Taisha got a question mark on the top of her cake this year. It's all her mamatica had. She said it was because she was thinking.."Whaaaaa?? You are already 20?"
My own Mamatica allows people over, but that is a rarity. We are learning every day that our Mamatica allows quite alot and has always been so sweet and caring to us. A lot of people are jealous and Ashley, Nicole, and I feel really lucky and blessed to have been placed with our Mamatica!
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