Yesterday was awesome. In surf camp (which turned out to basically be a private with some of the instructor´s friends from Argentina.. low season score for me), I improved my technique and got more comfortable taking on bigger waves outside of my prior comfort zone. With that being said, I caught the best waves of my life yesterday. I think one of my instructor´s amigos was taking pictures so we can see if these waves were as big and bad ass as I thought they were... I took it easy last night, went to a ¨reggae night¨ at a local bar with a few people from the hostel. It was pretty low-key but there was this one local dude that was completely feeling the music in front of our table. Girl in my crew coined it the ¨Reggae Dougie.¨ I don´t really know how to explain what he was doing but I´ll leave that up to your imagination.
The best part about this 3-day camp is that it´s roughly a 3-day camp. It´s super chill and flexible. For example, the tide was kind of low this morning so we´re just going this afternoon, logging a full day tomorrow and since I´m staying around a couple extra days, he said I can just keep surfing with him and his crew. So it´s kind of an open-ended 3-day camp which is very fitting for the go-with-the-flow, no worries mentality around here.
The original plan was to head to another beach town called Jaco for a few days after this camp but honestly I´m pretty content with the daily routine I´m in here and I have a sweet set up. After talking to some other travelers and surfers, I decided to stay here for the remainder of my time in Costa Rica. I came here to surf and am very able to do so. In fact, it´ll save me $40-50 bucks in terms of travel and frees up another day to surf when I would have otherwise been bussin´ slash (can´t find the slash key on this keyboard) shuttlin´ around.
Today- woke up at 9am and there wasn´t a cloud in the sky (huge win given low season). I proceeded to grab a fresh blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, mango, honey smoothie for breakfast and headed to the beach to chill for a couple hours with some friends made at the hostel before the home-cooked Costa Rican lunch I get with camp. Yesterday was a traditional beans, rice, potatoes, meat dish (that I covered in local hot sauce.. no Cholula but not bad). Today was similar but chicken was the protein on plate. Afternoon surf session is about 20 minutes from happening and I may try to partake in an evening yoga class, depending on how long we´re out there... might settle for a siesta. We´ll see how it plays out.
Most stressful thing today was probably untangling my headphones but for those worried, I got through that. Let the music play on.
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