Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Great maybe the Greatest














Woah Woah Woah! Time flies when you are in 4 different countries, flown in over 10 planes and slept in over 20 different beds. Today is the day we have all anticipated/dreaded/waited/been excited for. Its no surprise that we are feeling a lot of different emotions. However, we had a wonderful final week in Roatan and are enjoying our last day together.

Two days ago we dove our final dive (weird sounding phrase, I know), took our written certification test and recieved our certificates. Thats right folks, Carpe Cam group 2010 is open water dive certified!!

Last night we all went out to eat together at Pura Vida and basked in each others tan[ness] and good company. Bittersweet to say the least.


The following are a list of favorites that the group has compiled over the course of the trip. We have gotten to know each other very well especially each others likes and dislikes. So now its time for.... FAVORITES & LEAST FAVORITES.
Alphabetical order, okay, all things go, get ready to chuckle.

Adam: Favorite- Notting Hill, Hacky Sacks
             Least Favorite: Papaya


Brian: Favorite- Being down for everything and eating everyone else's leftovers
            Least Favorite: Vegetables and not being able to do everything


Brooke: Favorite- Parent Trap, Milk, Shadow Puppets, Seatbelts
               Least Favorites- Being in tune with her body (embarrassing? maybe)


Emily: Favorite- Gunpoets, Stretching, Bread
             Least Favorites- Stain glass, lack of bathrooms, and chasing amy


Griffin: Favorite- Kriss, Santi, Judge, Pilar, Pec Man, Bologna
              Least Favorite- Lady GaGa, Buying food

Hannah: Favorite- Nutella
                 Least Favorite- Being in pictures and sunburned nose


Heather: Favorite- Dental Hygiene, Mate, Yoga, and Kush spilling oil
                 Least Favorite- Being cold


Kelly: Favorite- Winning the carpe game, footloose dance
            Least Favorite- Only one taking the spanish final (ouch....)


Lauren F: Favorite- Being more down than Brian, Flowers in her hair
                  Least Favorite- Brushing her hair (es verdad)

Lauren W: Favorite- Singing "El Amor" by Tony Bambino, Bojangles
                    Least Favorite: Bug bites from sand flies, bad headphones

Lexi: Favorite- DAD BOOKS, Chakra dance
         Least Favorite- When there is no coffee

Just for kicks... CARPE SLANG { slang= left, translation=right}
Totes Verdad: woah thats wayyyyy true
Es possible: yes thats highly possible
Es preguntable: QUESTIONABLE
Mas o Menos: more or less
"I mean...": Okay thats true I am embarrassed
What what you didnt know I could do that??: Used when exposing coolness
So what who caaayas??: used when doing something weird to avert attention
I love reggae: sarcastic, usually sung, after listening to excessive amts of reggae
Jovenes!: Look young people at this ant hill!!!

Friends and Fam, thank you for being so supportive and following us along on this journey. We will be back home before you know it. Love you all.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
See you soon. Love,
Brooke








































Saturday, May 1, 2010

Deep, maybe the deepest

Hey everyone!
After a relaxing week in Sarapiqui for free travel we flew here to the beautiful island of Roatan, Honduras. It was an easy and early trip, when we got here we spent the day unpacking and hanging out in our awesome hotel. On Thursday morning we walked next door to seagrape plantation diving center to begin our SCUBA course. Our instructors Tony and Reno showed us some informational videos and then took us to get geared up. On our first day we got to dive! It was a shallow dive (of 30 ft) but still incredible. It was strange adjusting to the underwater world but everyone did great.
For the past 2 days weve been doing SCUBA class all day, usually info in the morning and diving in the afternoon. In the evening we get to explore the westend of the island and test out great local eateries. Tomorrow is already our last day of diving and I think well all be able to get our certificates.
Trivia:
- Roatan's population is 65,000
-English is the dominant language here
-On Christopher Columbus's 4th voyage he landed on one of the three bay islands
- The currency of Honduras is the Lempira
-There is over 100 kilometers of Coral Reef around Roatan

Love you all and see you soon! Stay posted for one more blog of our last few days, we've got some great pics coming!

Love, Emily

P.S. Shout out to the Worthy's in NC! We went to Bojangles last night for some good southern cooking...