900 Dogs and 2 Cockroaches

Today's breakfast was mango, a banana, and buttered bread with orange juice and tea. We had to communicate without Andrea (Spanish/English) to Flor and we did pretty damn good. This app we have been using has been helping us a lot and our conversation was really good. Talked about travel and the transit and stores. Our Spanish is really developing now. At 7:45 our driver showed up to drive us an hour in a mountain to go to territorio de zaguates which means "Land of the strays". It's a like a huge humane society, where all the dogs without homes go to. Over 900 apparently. We only seen maybe 300 while we hiked with them. They apparently help them to the best they can but it was still very sad to see because a lot of them were so sick and rashes or diseases, some didn't have legs, I saw one without an eye. Rib cages galore and bones sticking right out. It was really really sad to witness. I wanted to adopt one so bad, there was a kinda fat and short girl that was just the biggest sweetheart and we loved each other equally. I was really debating in my head on how to take her back home with me. But I finally decided not to. At the end of the two hour hike, we saw the shelters they provide and the puppies. Michaela and I got to hold a little blue eyed baby, just a little bigger than my fist. Leaving we smelt like dogs, it was gross. I had to shower asap.

Link about "Land of the Strays": http://www.someecards.com/cute/animals/stray-dog-costa-rica/

This morning Michaela woke up to a cockroach on her door and I had to explain the situation of us both freaking out to Flor about it. She laughed at us and took a mop to get it. I didn't see the dead bug in her hand when she walked away so later when we got back from the hike, I heard rustling in the grocery bag of garbage hanging on the doorknob of my door. I flashed my light on it and out crawled a cockroach. I about started crying. I yelled to Michaela to open my door so I could run out and tell Flor but she wasn't here so I cried. It crawled out to the other side of the door and I closed it with myself inside the room and it outside. I threw a blanket under the door and prayed there wasn't anymore. I was brave enough to take a nap. It sucks because I sleep on the top bunk and I'm just a few feet from the ceiling with holes in it so bugs could crawl out at any time and I'd be the first to know.

Dinner was just us and Flor again. The other girls are off doing tours and we are broke. Tried flan and it was so disgusting. I couldn't handle the texture. Dinner was salad (lettuce, cucumber, carrots with sauce), potatoes cooked with seasoning or something, banana that was grey or brown (cooked weird but tasted great), and a fried juevo (egg) because I couldn't have pollo (chicken). And the usual Costa Rican arroz (rice).

Mas information:

• Flor likes whiskey and beer