funny day

oh gosh... not sure what jayne and i are on lately but we have been having some pretty hilarious experiences. today started out normal enough, wake up at 6:30, get ready, eat fruit (our mama tica did ask if we wanted cake for breakfast though ha NOT!), take the bus to school, class. my watch is kind of temperamental though and it really was acting crazy today. i set it to the right time before we left the house and it slowly got behind, so i felt like we were in class forever... but then we got out early and it was wonderful. even though it wasn't really early, my watch just told me it was. but what can you expect for a $4 watch right?
we went and got lunch by the university again, this time we got a gringa... so good! just like in mexico. then we decided to walk to this supposedly amazing park in san jose. my teacher kept telling us how cool it was and stuff. he did say that we needed to take a bus because it was very far away, but we were bored and had nothing to do so we just decided to walk. and walk. and walk. but we made it. it wasn't the coolest park ever, but it did have grass and a pond so that was a bonus.
on the way back home things got a little weird. we stopped at an am/pm (the best convenient store in town) to get the yogurt that brittany had been raving about. it was pretty delicious. strawberry yogurt with these little crunchy, chocolate balls inside. yum. so we were eating those and walking back. we ran into some strange people. on this one corner while we were waiting to walk. this man in a red shirt with greased back hair came and stood in front of me, much too close for comfort, and just stared at my face. can you say uber creep? then as we crossed heading east he crossed south and then kept walking with us but on the other side of the street and stared at us for a few blocks. heebie geebies.
then there were people everywhere. super weird for a tuesday afternoon. we had a few people semi-stalk us and random strangers just ram into us while walking like we weren't even there. i had a blind guy hit me with his walking stick.
then here's the funny part. the sidewalk here is super dangerous for someone like me. i trip and fall on a normal, flat, uncracked road. but wow... this is a danger zone. random holes and dibbets all over the place. and not just little holes. these are huecotes! anyhow. you can imagine the curbs... very irregular in height and distance from the sidewalk to the road. i have to constantly be watching my step, cause you can ask jayne, i've had my share of close calls with falling and i've scuffed up every pair of shoes i brought here. well today i didn't look down. enough said. i was flat on my stomach in the middle of the street. got a few bruises on my knee, scuffed up my ankle and had some pretty dirty hands. the police across the street didn't know what to do. they just looked at me. the people just walked around me. my water bottle went flying and i lost my cap. hilarious.

these trees are awesome. not sure what kind they are, but they look like tie-dye or like someone threw some paint on them or something.