Ahh Carnavales is crazy!! I can’t describe it really in words, it’s more something that a person needs to experience to really understand what it is like. But basically, it’s 100s of people all on one street, starting to drink around 10am and drinking until 4 or 5am in the morning. For 11 days. There’s makeshift bars that they built on the beach. People are drunk and dancing and singing karaoke and eating and just walking around and talking. There was a parade on Saturday that was supposed to start at 3pm… it’s tico time so we didn’t go to the area til around 3:30…the parade didn’t start until after 5:30 haha. And then it turned out that it was just 100s of people on horses. Haha it was funny because people were really excited for it because it’s something that happens every year and we were all like yeah! A parade of horses! Then it actually happened after we waited for 2 hours and it wasn’t quite what we were expecting haha.
It’s sp dangerous though. Everyone has told me, at least 5 different times to not walk alone and to not bring ANYTHING with you at all. Like if you need money they say put it in your bra or shoe because it will be stolen. Just last night I was with like 10 USAC students and one girl had $60 taken from her pocket without even feeling it (don’t know why she had $60 with her to begin with) another student, Andrew, had his digital camera taken out of his buttoned pant’s pocket without feeling anything, and one of our tico friends got his cell phone stolen! All in one night! The pick pocketers must be real good here.
Ehh and its so dirty and smelly already. And it’s only the 3rd day! 1) there is horse poop everywhere. It’s basically engraved in the pavement (which they paved the road new the day before carnavales started). 2) ticos don’t know what trashcans are, especially when they’re drunk, so they just throw everything on the ground 3) people don’t shower here because it costs money and you just start sweating a minute after the shower so I suppose they find it useless
So, despite the smell, the danger, and the drunk people carnavales is amazing haha. A bunch of us went dancing and had a great time and it’s fun to just watch people and experience something completely different than our culture in the US.
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That does sound crazy (I think you did a pretty good job of describing in it words) :)
ReplyDeleteThat's crazy good pickpockets - were they drunk, and that's why they didn't feel it? ;) Just kidding, I've actually heard that sort of thing before. Be careful! (Glad it wasn't YOURS that was stolen!)