PURA VIDA

hola mis amigas y amigos,

Now the time has come to publish my last entry on this page - hm after 11 months I dont even know where to start and end to talk about...
Well I better keep it short and simple hihi
I guess everyone who met me this year, stayed wit me in contact or just read this blog from time to time knows how much I loved, appreciated and enjoyed the last year!!
Time flew by kinda quickly and finally I just have to say thanks to some people...all of u, if viking, aussie, dutch, scandinavian, french or just from good old austria made this year very special to me because you were part of it!
Thanks for,
-leting me annoying u on MSN
-giving me swedish cooking lessons
-drinking loads of coffee in the beanery
-enjoying my punch
-showing me how to surf Canada and California
-eating tons of chocholate with me (almonds and Ritter Sport, thank good for these pleasures!)
-exploring Costa Ricas wild- and nightlife
-medium-climb a mountain
-sharing a lot of gossip
-learning me the lovely languages of mainly english, dutch and all kind of scandianvian mix
-helping me out with logistics
-being great company in the library
-cooking tons of tons of lasagne
-storming a wall
-telling me the time
-grabing a snickers with me
-keeping the line vancouver-austria busy
-carrying me around
-biking stanley park
-making me smile
-having fun in whistler
-by the way loads of fun and good snowboarding
-chopping our own christmas tree
-making jokes about my below-standard riding
-eating cheesecake with me
-visiting me
-the never ending support from my friends at home
-oh my good, there would be so much more to say...
-but finally: thanks for making me happy all the time!!!!

And last but not least thanks to my parents for their love and support!!!
(and for their regular money transfers to my account;-)

hm I hope I made a point...just to make it visual, I publishes some pics again...
Hope to see u all again...whereever u are, I will find u ;-)

hugs and tons of love,
Lisi, Liz, Lissi,...


 

Final days...

holaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I am now already "back home" in Costa Rica - enjoyed my days in Nicaragua, more precisely in Granada an old Kolonialcity (I guess, thats wrongly writen, but who cares ;-)...spent most time again in the hostel, was a lovely place and I was just toooo lazy to climp vulcanos or explore the nature hihi

anyways now I have reached my final destination - its MONTEZUMA again, I do love this place as well! Unfortunately it took me 2 days to get here as I took a late evening bus from san jose, felt asleep and ended up at the end terminal in mal pais, approximately 2 hours away from Montezuma ;-) anyways now I am here and enjoying the rain, I am hoping for sun sooooooooooooon as I wanna work mainly on my teint here!!!
I also bought a book today - uh surprise surprise hihi - I guess the Da Vinci Code will accompany me the next couple of days perfectly!
Looking forward seeing you in a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek ;-)

hugs and louds of love,
Lisi

Panamania ;-)

hi there,

so I spent nearly a week now at Bocas del Torro in Panama and I really really loved it there! Bocas is the capital of an island group in the carribean sea and it was just lovely. nice people, a great hosel (as u can see on the pictures), a lot of sun and fun ;-)
right now I am back in San Jose and will try to get to Nicaragua for a couple of days by tomorrow. Wanna spend some time there and explore at least a little bit of it before I am going home.
yep there are only 13 days to go for me ;-)

hugs and love,
Lisi

more...

but at least we got wet - thanks for all the rain hihi



brave dutch girl holding the strongest bug of the world!



well, I got just a little ladybug ;-)



Rainforest walking...


Monteverde



that a good bunch of asses...BUT check the background!!!



what a great pool!



our really, really late night walks!

wanted to add some more pics but the PC gave up ;-) anyways I guess you can see that I am enjoying myself! Right now I am back in San Jose, today I also split up with my two dutchies as their parents are coming...so of course I am pretty sad as I really really did enjoy traveling with them ;-)
hm so my plans are going to panama for a couple of days, more precisely going to bocas del torro, a island group in the caribbean sea...hm cant be that bad ;-)
hasta luego,

pura vida,
Lisi

keep on traveling...hit the road again, and it's a really bumpy one!

hola hola

oki doki lisi-turtle finished her work on friday and now 3 weeks of traveling are waiting for me :-) I liked the work in Matapalo...the last couple of days we did a lot of night walks - I always got the good times, walking between 1 and 4, 2 and 5 or 12 and 3 in the morning hihi how great!! but was fun :-)
so now I am free for traveling and thats good! me and the 2 dutchis made our way through to monteverde. amazing how the public transport works, it tooks about 2 hours to get through 30 km, but well bloody hell who cares :-)
today we walked through some rainforest and visited afrog pond. right now we are just hanging out in our lovely hostel and enjoying the raining afternoon!
thats short news from costa rica - looking forward hearing from u as well :-)

pura vida,
Lisi

Turtle News

hola mis amigos,

Yep I am still there and saving the world :-)
Having my day off today and enjoying the sun! so what I am up for right now...lets see: Working now in Matapalo, together with around 15 other voluntarios at a turtle project. Our task is to build the hatchery on the beach - which roughly looks like a big sand box :-) and should finally become a place were we are putting the turtle eggs. During night we are going for a 3 hour,10 km walk on the beach to look for turtles, their tracks and most of all their eggs. The main task is to find the eggs and put them in the hatchery were they are most save! We are all doing good and hard work here and its nice to see that our hands are needed!
The work is exciting and I have learned a lot about turtles itself. Unfortunately we havent seen one yet..we always missed them...we just found tracks and the eggs.
Its a great project and I am enjoying my last days here. Me and the 2 very tall dutch girls will start traveling around C.R by the end of the week - pura vida :-)
And most exciting: from today on there are only 4 weeks and 1 day to go and then I am home in good old Austria! Thinking a lot about you all!

pura vida,
Lisi


ja ich bin noch immer im sup-tropisch-heissen-rainy COSTA RICA und rette die welt (hm irgendwie hat sich das im enlgischen bessern angehoert hihi)
hab heute meinen freien tag - endlich - arbeite nun zusammen mit ca. 15 anderen Voluntarios in einen super kleine dorf namens matapalo an einen Schildkroeten Projekt. Unterm tag arbeiten wir meistens an einer Art Brutstelle am Strand fuer die Schildkroeteneier - das ganze schaut aus wie ein grosser Sandkasten!! Am Abend gehen wir dann abwechselnd auf unsere "walks", 3 stunden, 10 km am Strand patroullieren um Schildkroeten, deren Spuren und vor allem um die Eier zu finden. Das ist die Hauptaufgabe hier, die Eier zu finden und sie zur Brutstelle zu bringen, denn dort sind sie am sichersten von all den natuerlichen Feinden wie Krabben, Menschen etc...
Muss sagen alle hier arbeiten ziemlich hart aber es ist wirklich super zu sehen das man gebraucht wird!
Ja die Arbeit daugt ma wirklich, leider haben wir noch keine Schildkroete gesehen, nur deren Spuren und die Eier. Aber ich bin ja noch einige Tage hier and u never know...
so das waeren die news von meiner seiten. hoffe euch gehts allen gut. yep von heute an nur mehr 4 wochen und 1 tag und dann bin ich wieder zuhaus. hihi werd schon nervoes :-)

miss u all,
pura vida

PS: Fotos are on Ringo! (was not possible to upload them here)

News from the sunshine coast

hi and hello

oki doki there are some news from my side. I have finished now my first project in the nationalpark of cabo blanco. was hard work and thank good that the monkeys are pretty bad in throwing fruits on u hihi
we, which means my two dutch friends and me, are spending the weekend of course on the coast and enjoying the sun. unfortunately on the way to Jaco, the beachtown we are staying right now , the bag of my friend Anne got stolen and all documents like pasport, creditcard and so on are gone now. was pretty bad and we spent the afternoon at the police office. but also that was a experience for itself as the english of the officer was reduced to hi and good bey...well vamos a hablar espanol!! I guess we managed pretty well and could then continue our journey!
Tomorrow we are going then to our second project, going to work for 12 days in a turtle station! yep I am mutating to a turtle ranger hihi so you can see, I am not only working on my teint hihi

oki doki thats the sunny news from costa rica
hope you are all doing fine

oki doki habe nun mein erstes arbeitsprojekt im nationalpark cabo blanoc abgeschlossen. war schon ziemlich harte arbeit und i bin froh das die affen ziemlich schlecht drin sind fruechte auf einen zu werfen hihi
wir, also meine 2 freundinnen aus dem wunderschoenen holand hihi, haben das wochnenen natuerlich an der kueste verbracht. leider hatten wir ein wenig pech auf den weg hierher und der rucksach von anne wurde gestohlen / mit all den wichtigen dokumenten wie Pass, Kreditkarte usw...yep war schon ziemlich bloed. na ja den nachmittag durften wir dann bei der polizei verbringen. aber auch das war ein erlebnis fur sich selbst, da sich das englisch des polizisten auf hi und good bye beschraenkte!! hih aber i glaub wir haben das ganze ziemlich gut gemanaged und konnten dann weiterreisen.
Morgen gehts dann weiter zu unserem 2 Projekt in einer Schildkroeten Station. Wir werden dort ca. 12 Tage arbeiten...yep Turtle Ranger hihi

best wishes from my side
pura vida
Lisi