You know how in Spain bullfighting is super famous and is a huge event? Like in Pamplona where they have the running of the bulls. It is world known, and everyone wants to participate. Well, there is a Tico version.
Every year during the first three months of the year cities and towns all over Costa Rica have their annual festivals with carnivals, food, bull riding, basically a big party. I went last year to the carnivals in Puntarenas, and it was a lot of fun! This past week Esparza was having fiestas. On Sunday night E and I stopped after Manuel Antonio to see the bull riding...SO CRAZY! Basically bulls are brought in from all over the country for this competition, and riders get to try and stay on for as long as possible...after the rider falls off, the young men of the given town have free reign inside the pen to agitate the bull as much as possible...they shout at it, run past it, jump over it, run from it, smack its butt, try to get it to chase them... This naturally results in a lot of injuries and is extremely dangerous, but it is incredibly funny to watch. There were some close calls when E and I watched all this happening in Esparza. I had never gone to an event like it, just watched on tv. How cool to really experience it...and I had some churros. YUM!
A "torta" is a mistake or accident, or something that got messed up. (read on...)
I have not mentioned it, but the blackberrys I bought for E and myself have proven to be a great dissapointment. The one I was using stopped working after only one week. The battery got completely run down, and upon trying to recharge it, it turned on and off by itself three times and then just stopped working completely. No matter if you change the battery, plug it in, etc...it doesn't work at all. This is after the sound started to get wierd...it wouldn´t ring, and then if I pressed down on the screen it would ring...it all boils down to a problem with the sound card on this particular model. E's phone has great reception, but there is a strange spot on the screen and the light on the keyboard doen't work well.
Today I have been using E's phone as I was out and about, and just now I tried to add a few songs to it and...totally messed it up. So in addition to having my busted blackberry, I just messed up the other one...so much for getting new phones. Why do people call them crackberrys anyway? They sure aren't all they are cracked up to be...Never again will I buy Blackberry. I should have just stuck with the iPhone.
So, if you feel like helping me with getting a new cell phone...get an unlocked iPhone 3gs and send it on down. It doesn't even have to be a 4...or a 4gs. Just a working cell phone will do for now. What a torta, right??
Pura vida.... sigh.
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