This morning was the big exam! We had to know about 120 species of plants and animals that we learned about on our field trip. I'm pretty sure I'm fluent in Latin by now! :) It went pretty well, and having that done made life a lot less stressful...We had nothing else to do today in terms of class, so I did some homework before we went out on the town in the evening.
We had two things on the agenda for the night: a pizza eating contest, and a concert by our professor's band called Chanchos de Monte. We started off the night with the pizza eating contest between myself, Dan, and Nick. We each ordered a whole, large pizza and we had to eat as much pizza as possible in 30 minutes. It was quite a competition, but I ended up being the first to finish in 16 minutes :) It was a fun way to start off the night!
After dinner, we still had a few hours until the concert started, so Gracy, Dan, and I got some ice cream at the super market. Apparently $2 pints of ice cream are not gourmet! It was basically the most disgusting thing we had ever eaten, so Dan and I decided to get a drink to wash it down...Logically, we decided to get an energy drink! :) We headed to the concert from there.
The concert was in a little bar near the center of town, and it was packed! Apparently Chanchos de Monte is pretty famous here in Monteverde...It was fun having some time to hang out with everyone, and it was awesome to see our professor rocking out on stage! He's a really neat person, and I enjoyed getting to see another side of his life. All in all, it was a very enjoyable day :)
PS-Chancho de Monte is Spanish for Peccary, which is an animal that looks kind of like a hairy pig...They are endangered here in Costa Rica.
Random picture I found online...My prof (Alan)
is the one with the beard :)
Another picture...He's in the middle
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