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I leave for Costa Rica Wednesday, out of Orlando ($285 vs. flying out of Jax for $600+!!). I'm going alone, and I've only barely been out of the southeastern region of the U.S. in my entire life. I'm really looking forward to this, as I believe it will be a significant chapter in my long journey of personal development. I paid a very large, non-monetary price for this trip, and the closer I get to it, the more all signs say GO. I'll surf while I'm there, and I'm planning to do some yoga classes, too. I'm hoping I can find a cheap golf range to play at, and hopefully I'll find a job. I don't plan to sleep much at all, and I will probably drink a lot less coffee and beer and eat a lot more fruit and protein bars.

When I get back, I'll waste no time in heading to Tallahassee for FSU's Applied Master's program in Economics. I don't plan on working the entire year, for I wish to dedicate it wholly to the program and, probably more importantly, to learning another language and furthering my knowledge of economics. Towards the end of my senior year, I was starting to pull everything together that used to confound me before. Economics is itself like a language, and I feel I'm really starting to not only learn it for myself but also to develop my own dialect. Call it arrogant, but I believe I can put a new emphasis on it all, that is, make it accessible to new and otherwise indifferent crowds of people. I know exponentially more now than I did a year ago, and that's with working 25+ hours a week and taking nonsense classes at the same time. Anyway, I'm almost more excited to go to Tallahassee than I am Tamarindo. Who would've thought?

I'll probably rename the blog when I get back. I think I'm going to make a blog about my adventures in Costa Rica, but I don't want to commit to anything because I'm not sure what computer access will be like while I'm there. I won't have a phone or my own lap top, either (or even a camera!).

It's funny, I was so ready to get out of school. Now I just want back in. Well, not exactly. But these in-between times are so boring that I don't know what to do with myself. This will all be different in less than a week!

I come back July 28th. See ya then.