Nate-O-Bean's Address

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that if you want to write to my brother his email address is nathan.bouvette@us.army.mil. He's currently in Kuwait and he thinks that his company is going to be there for their entire deployment, which is awesome. They're also telling them that they'll be able to come home for a couple of weeks in October. I haven't had too much experience with the army but I'm pretty sure that'll change about 24 times before he actually gets to come home. This is the real address that I have for him

Nathan Bouvette
227th ENGR BN
APO AE 09395

so if you want to send him something to do I'm sure he'd appreciate it. He's slowly dying of boredom over there at the same time I'm slowly dying of boredom down here. It's a fun time for all persons Bouvette, apparently. If you don't know Nat you can still email him, if you want. It might be kind of entertaining.

I know I haven't updated my blog that much but I'm determined to make something happen this weekend that's blogworthy. We have a long weekend (yay!!!) because we just finished our second "semester" of Spanish. I officially have all the classes that I need to graduate completed. Now it's just finishing the ones I don't care at all about that I have to worry about. Great. Although I did get a stellar 95% on my Marine Biology exam. Not bad considering I knew about half the answers, eh? I'm loving having a teacher that doesn't speak English well. Alright, time to go. I think I'm finally going to break down and buy some mascara. I lost mine a couple weeks ago so I have forsaken all make-up since then. Now, however, I have realized how butt ugly I am without make-up and, so as not to inflict any more pain and suffering on the world, I will go buy some mascara and start being a girl again. The things a girl has ta do....

Yesssssssssssssssssssssss

ASHLY IS COOL AND SHE SENDS ME SWEET TUNES, THEREFORE I WILL BUY HER SOMETHING PRETTY

More than sweet tunes though kids, she sent me BEEF JERKY. There are no words to describe how excited I was. No words. Thank you Ashly. Thank you. You may have saved my life. It was worth all the ribbing I took for being the ultimate Yooper who needs regular installments of beef jerky. Fucking trolls, there's like a million of them down here. Of course, if I lived in lower Michigan I'd want to get out too. Well, I'm off to play a key role in a riveting performance about Manzanas de Agua. Every class (there are like a million) has to do a presentation on a different fruit in front of the entire school. Oh yay.

Antonio X 2

Whoa, what a weekend. I finally have something interesting to write about! Well, sort of. Anyway, I met the Costa Rican version of myself. We went to a little restaurant for happy hour and our waiter just happened to be the only Costa Rican I’ve met who can successfully employ sarcasm. From moment one he gave me shit about everything. It was pretty funny. The clincher was when I asked for the check by saying “Can I get la cuenta?” And he said “Con mucho pleasure.” Yes! He’s a Spanglish speaking asshole too! I left, had myself a little guaro, and then went back to see if he wanted to hang out after he was done with work. He, naturally, said yes (I’m irresistible) so some friends, Anthony/Antonio and I headed to the only club in Manuel Antonio, which is right by the beach (boooy-hee) and very cool. I can’t say that I remember a ton after that but the evening ended with me drawing happy snakes on his arm. Not quite the ending you had in mind, eh? What can I saw, I’m lame.
He called me to say Happy Valentine’s day, strangely enough. We had a pretty ridiculous half hour conversation in which he tried to bribe me with sea kayaking. He said he’d take me if I could make it to Manuel Antonio again. Sorry Buddy can’t make it. I’m a busy girl. Although I would like to go sea kayaking. Hmm….Well, it’s nice to have options.
I hadn’t drank in like a million years so I was pretty damn hung over on Sunday. I think pretty sure there’s nothing worse for a hang over than extreme heat and 100% humidity. Oh well, I survived and now I’m set for the rest of the trip. No more guaro for me! That stuff is sneaky.
I just learned some invaluable Spanish from Joan of Arcadia-monitos de mar-Sea Monkeys. Cool. I’m sure I’ll use that a lot. I finally came up with the idea to type out my blogs on word and then copy and paste them the next day. It requires me to bring my computer to school, with the ever present risk of theft. Once again, oh well.
I wish I had something to comment on other that what is happening (or not happening) on my life down here but I have to admit that I haven’t been keeping up on USA news at all. Not that I’ve been keeping up on Costa Rican news either. I have no idea what’s going on anywhere except for in a house 200 metros oeste de la entrade principal de Saleciano Don Bosco. Wow. I suck. So let me know what’s going on, if you will.

Thanks Julie!

I got a letter, I got a letter, I got a letter hey hey hey hey. As you may be able to tell, mail makes me very happy. Actually I got TWO letters today, one from Julie and one from my grandma. I was like Christmas! Especially since my grandma sent me $5 and that's like 238409283409 colones. Okay, so maybe it's 2500 but that's still a lot. Thanks to all you guys who said that you are going to send me stuff, I love you for it. And for those of you who didn't answer your phone when I called (LEE) I realize you didn't have the opportunity to tell me that you are going to send stuff but I trust that it's in the mail. =)
So anyway, I've been noticing that people have not been keep up on their blogs very well. What's up with that? I need to know what's going on! For real. During the week I need to live vicariously through you guys and you can live vicariously through me on the weekends. Deal? Great.
Speaking of weekends, that's what it is. FUCKING RIGHT BITCHES. Let the sunburning commence! I'm headed to Manuel Antonio, which is a delightful rainforest/beach combo. Hmm...I suppose I should use the remaining time to write on my other blog so my mom can rest easy. Adios chicos!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!!!!

Just think, only like 839082 more days 'til you're legal. Hopefully I'll be there for your next one!

I would like to remind all of you that I get, on average, 10 minutes of internet time a day, 4 days a week. I am REALLY trying to keep in touch with all of you but it's very very hard.

CARRIE

Apparently email won't work so I'm going to do it this way.

Carrie, I swear to God if you don't answer my email our friendship is over. It's not that hard to tell me what the hell is going on and I NEED to know. If you're not coming down here then I need to make alternate plans. If I don't do this soon I'll be stuck in the Hose for 10 days all by my freakin' self. This would seriously make me hate you. And my life. Not that I would have much of a life to worry about after I was shot repeatedly. Answer me.

We Have A Winner!

And the winner of the Best Long Distance Friend Award goes to....

SANDRA MARIE FORSTER!!!

Please give her a round of applause.

Okay guys, so this whole calling from the States thing can be done, and for a lot cheaper than I can call you guys. I got filled in on all the latest Manitowish Waters gossip, now I need some from Marquette. Once again, 011-506-234-8865. Esta Jaime alli (ai-yee)? would probably work when my mama Tica answers the phone. Or just say "Hey, is Jaime there" and I'm pretty sure she'd know well enough to hand the phone to the only English speaker in the house. Okay, it's time for me to go sit in the hot tropical sun for a little while before class. I expect I'll be hearing from you all soon. =)

Look what I found!! 

More Music!

I know snail mail is a thing of the past but I'm going to have to ask you guys to utilize it one more time before it slips in the the archives of what used to be. I need more music. Bad. I have 300 songs on my computer and I've listened to them all at least 2987234987 times, no lie. Please please please please send me some CDs. My CD player plays MP3s so you can pack millions of them on one disk. PLEEEEEEEEEASE!! I'm dyin' here! Amy, right now I would even appreciate the not so appreciable music that you listen to!!! If there are any country fans out there I wouldn't mind some of the latest either. I'm not kidding. Help a friend in need or you will be hearing Cory Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" sung word for word (by me) until the end of your days. No one wants that.

Once again, I have nothing scintillating to report. I didn't even touch alcohol this weekend. In fact, I decided to not drink anymore when I'm down here unless it's a special occasion. And I'm not talking the special occasions of old such as "Laundry Day," "Football is On," or "Tuesday". Don't worry, it's not because I'm turning all puritan in my 3rd world environment, it's because I have no actual desire to get robbed or raped. Makes sense, eh? Okay, time for me to go. I just wanted to send out my plea for some tunage. Ciao!