09:45
So here we are… roughly 212 days or about 31 weeks in Costa Rica!
The
hotel provided me with a surreal wake-up call, I then had my last Gallo Pinto
(traditional rice & beans dish) and arranged my luggage a little.
The
taxi driver took me to the airport where everything ended up going as smoothly
as hoped, apart from I couldn’t buy any Flor De Caña cane sugar dark rum as
planned as a gift to friends, family and colleagues!
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| Goodbye Costa Rica (D.Philpot) |
What
am I returning to? England - that grey and currently unfamiliar country… the
Olympics I've only just been reminded of, and that’s the end of my only
enthusiasm I have for that… because of course I would much rather stay in this
beautiful place. My options to stay or return would be employment within the
environment sector here, to pursue a dive internship to earn my Divemaster
qualification while working and being paid a little to do so, or further
education through one of the universities here… I can now only hope this is
possible maybe one day.
My
family, friends and pets, these are actually highest on my list… I miss them
but I realise it will all be quite strange for a long while. I am not looking
forward to suffering with reverse culture shock, especially with not using
anywhere near as much Spanish in practice - maybe in my head, however I do have
both my brief trip to Ireland followed shortly by university life once more to
look forward to. I return to a new life, with a more profound mind about the
tropical lifestyle, let's see how my next chapter pans out…