Sunday, July 18, 2010

July 18, 2010 Sunday in Manuel Antonio

I spent this day embarking on my new fitness/health routine. My right hip has been painful so I decided to devote full energy to making it strong. Back to the heavy duty walking and dieting so it will have to carry less weight. All this is in an effort to avoid a hip replacement.
However, I have started doing research here in Costa Rica about the available places to have that operation. There is CIMA, which costs about $17000.00. I am checking out Hospital Biblica. Rumor says only $8000.00 there, but rumor is only rumor. Then there is the Social Security of Costa Rica, to which I belong. I hear there is a long wait there, but if I begin now, consult a doctor, get the facts, that is okay. I don't want to do it immediately anyway. I want to try the exercise route first.
So, I walked to Mono Azule, walked from there to the beach, took a bus halfway home and walked the rest of the way. DAY ONE.
I have an appointment tomorrow at noon with a new Spanish teacher. I feel positive about it and am ready now to start again in earnest.
The apartment is coming together well, I need a couple of comfortable chairs or a love-seat and I will be set. The party the other night went well and the place feels like my home now.
I am meeting a friend at the Spanish speaking AA meeting Tuesday night. At that I can at least hear more Spanish spoken. Surely, eventually I will understand it well. I know the topic at least. This is pretty much for my own information now, so no one needs to bother reading it. I am talking to myself. It isn't real until I say it aloud or write it down.
I found a hardware store and a used bookstore about 75 minutes from here by bus. That made my day yesterday. Well, that and the fact that, at the bus stop, a Costa Rican woman asked if I was from France. I listened to the three of them talking in Spanish that they thought I couldn't understand, debating where we were from. Fianlly one was designated to ask. Of course I replied, 'naw baby ' ahm from the gud ol us of a.

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