"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"

Everything right is wrong again

Well, time to let ppl. know that I´m alive. The last days have, however, not exactly been a walk in the park! After a long and tiresome flights to San Jose (via Miami) I got a pick up from the airport and was shown to my room at the hostel. It was not the main part of the hostel but a house on the other side of the street belonging to the same hostel. I had booked a good room just for me for the first night so that I could be alone and get over my jetlag. It seemed that I was the only one in this part of the hostel so it was nice and quiet and the room was fine. Unfortunately things moved rather ("rather" beeing the understatement of the year) down hill from there. I asked the guy in the reception where I could get something to eat at this time of night (it was 22:00). He thought for a moment and then told me about a Costa Rican Restaurant just down the street few blocks and then to the right. Ok, easy enough I thought I´ll just go there have a quick snack and go strait to bed. But there I made my first mistake. I just walked out in search of this restaurant without making any of the precausions I normally make when going out alone...can you see where this is going? It was probably because of the jetlag that I was just not thinking straight so it was basically my own fault running into three muggers just down the road. What happend next happend very quickly: They demanded my money (as muggers do) or else!, and as I was not particularely interested in finding out what "or else" was, I gave them my wallet. I did however ask then very politely (as one does giving the situation) to leave my creditcards and just take the money. This just seamed to make them mad so I just said ok ok ok and slowly backed off. Then they ran away. I spend the rest of the evening calling Denmark and Iceland to cancel my cards, getting them to send my some new ones. So now I am stuck here for at least two or three days more while I am waiting for my cards. I have always wandered what I would do in this situation and unfortunately...now I know! Afterwards I was a little bit surprised how calmly I acted and did not panic. The worst part of this story is that it could so easily have been avoided. If I had gone to the main part of the hostel in the beginning I would have found out that they have a kitchen there that was still open. I´m still mad at the other receptionist for not pointing that out to me. I even asked him why the hell he had not told me about that...and he answered: "the food is not particularly good over there". Then I strangled him! No I did not actually do that, even though the idea did briefly cross my mind. Also If I had been thinking clearly I would have left my credid cards at home and just taken a couple of dolars for the meal.
I suppose I could wander about the what ifs until the end of the earth but I am determined not to let this spoil my vacation. I might have to cut it a little bit short though. Not only does it cost to get new cards but the muggers also managed to use on of the cards before I could close it...so all in all this sets my back about 4500 Danish krona or about ten days in spending money.
Other than this I am fine and am planing to find out what I will do with the rest of my time here, when I get my money that is. I guess the Diving course is off, for the time being at least.
Until next time,
Jon

posted by Nonni @ 5:26 e.h.