I don't know if its illegal for students studying abroad from the USA to buy pirated DVD's in the country they are studying in, so i'm going to just say I may or may not have bought some pirated DVDs. See, in Costa Rica, there are no copyright laws... Same thing with books... you can rent out a library book and then copy it, for super cheap! It's really Costa Rica's fault though! The books are sooooo expensive here! So anyway, the movies have copyright laws but for some reason, they can do it in Costa Rica. In the DVD copy store, the owner even has a license for copying DVD's and he has a sign that says "God blesses my business". Haha, sounds good to me! Or at least if I tell myself that. So I may or may not have bought 3 DVD's including the new Twilight movie, which I kinda want to see, "Love and Other Drugs", and the movie "Enamorándome de mi ex" which translates as "Falling in love with my Ex" which is actually the movie "It's complicated". So if I did buy these movies, it would be because I really miss watching movies and its not like there is a regular DVD store around here, much less a place to rent DVDs. Gosh, its likes asking us to buy pirated DVDs. Plus, I figure I payed enough to live in this country, I should reap some of the benefits... but this is only IF I bought pirated DVDs... just sayin.
Today was fun... We (Me, Linsey, and Las Negritas {Kennesha and April}) ate at a Lebanese place, I really like Lebanese food! They give you these fried balls of who knows what for appetizer... It was similar to the Persian food except we got hummus. I don't really like hummus but it was bangin at this place! And I got a pita, I really miss pita, I love pita. So you put your hummus down, then some meat, then some vegetables and yum yum yum... but apparently you are not supposed to put them all together, but whatever, I'm American and I totally miss the whole burrito concept, so yeah. I know a burrito is Mexican but lets face it, its more Americanized then ever with places like Chipotle and Qdobas... who kinda make it better than the Mexicans... sad.
After eating we went shopping and to central park. We looked in clothing stores but wow, if I though clothes were expensive in the USA, I really had never visited Costa Rica before. Even the thrift stores that carried American clothes from the 90's are expensive... why? So after shopping we went to central park where they have people selling homemade things, a lot of jewelry. I bought some dragonfly earrings since I love dragonflies (The look, not the actual insect) and they were made out of wood and painted... $2! Ok, I guess SOME things are cheap around here.
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