Lucy recently told me about a photo scavenger hunt that a person apparently named
"Hareton" is putting on, so I decided to take part. I had to find 25 items in a week or so, and here are my results. It was just a fun little thing:
1 - Arrow: At the entrance to the school where we work. I just realized it, but this arrow is basically pointless (no pun intended), since it doesn't really direct to
anything, and there's really only one way you can go when you enter the grounds.
2 - Crushed: A miniature pringles can in the gymnasium.
3 - Duct Tape: An old breaker box or something like that, held together by duct tape that has seen better days.
4 - Hole: The only problem with taking a picture of a pothole in Costa Rica is choosing
which pothole. Once you think you've gotten a winner, you always come across an even
bigger one, but since it's on the highway, you can't just stop to take a picture.
5 - My State: The Colorado flag I proudly have hanging in my office. I liked it ever since I noticed it's sort of like a candle. (Oh, and I technically live in the province of Alajuela now, but I wouldn't really consider myself an Alajuelense).
6 - Money: The Costa Rican 10,000 Colones bill --worth around 20 dollars-- featuring a cat suspiciously similar to Cucho.
7 - Contrast: A new bird of paradise flower on the left overshadows a dried out, dead one.
8 - Western: Well, it is a western-looking photograph, can't argue with that. The hard thing was getting the broken compass to work.
9 - Nothing: This was taken at noon the other day. Not much going on in our backyard.
10 - Vending Machine: I knew this picture was going to be a big challenge when I realized that Costa Rica doesn't have vending machines... anywhere! But then on that same foggy day as #9, this truck slowly rolled down the street blasting an advertising message over the barely-visible loudspeakers mounted on its hood. So, technically it's trying to sell something, so I reckon that's close enough to be a vending machine.
11 - Missing: This empty pole is where a stop sign should be (and probably once was) on a street in San Jose. Evidently there's a market for stolen stop signs. I had to go to San Jose on Thursday to teach a class.
12 - Four: Outside classroom number cuatro at the school where we teach.
13 - Old-Fashioned: An old-style hat that my friend Dustin gave me. I'm sure this style probably has a name, but I just call it "The type of hat where I should probably yell 'EXTRA! EXTRA!' while wearing it."
14 - Laundry: Angela and I really ought to get a supplementary laundry basket, or a different system. The one in our bathroom is always overflowing into the bathtub.
15 - Weapon: This was one of the easiest items to find, since I'm not the only person who keeps a couple of machetes in his office.
16 - The Letter "A": The letter A did me a solid (or a solido) by appearing on this fire extinguisher.
17 - Puff: I'm pretty sure that you can refer to a "puff of steam." At least I hope you can, since this picture is based on that premise.
18 - Red: The other evening the power went out for a few hours, and when I saw my reflection in the mirror, I knew I had my "red" picture.
19 - Palm: Palm trees at work.
20 - Water Tower: Most houses have these tanks on their roofs to have a backup when the water gets shut off.
21 - Game: Two, in fact. These are our knock-off versions of "Othello" and "Trivial Pursuit."
22 - Wrong: Actually, now I'm not so certain. I thought that "estrategia" was spelled with an "s," not an "x," but now according to an internet search, "extrategia" may also be a word. But, it's just wrong that I can often notice other people's spelling errors in Spanish (usually having to do with s/c/z, and v/b). Shouldn't happen.
23 - Ownership: And the owner says, "Stay the hell out!"
24 - Label: A label detailing the contents of a book of posters, which we use for our lessons.
25 - Toy: I brought this Frisbee to Costa Rica with the intention of taking it to the beach, but in the couple dozen times we've gone since I brought it, I have not remembered it a single time.
So, that's it for the Photo Scavenger Hunt, but if you check out
Hareton's blog's comments, you can see links to other participants' pictures. It's pretty cool!
I'll also put up Pictures of the Day as soon as possible, but thanks for reading in the meantime!
365: Picture a Day Project
365 Leftovers
All My Pictures
Sitzbook
August 19th: An office building near where I teach a class in San Jose. It was raining, so I had to take the picture from my car (Because of traffic, I either get to class around an hour early or about 5 minutes late... I prefer early, so I just hang out in my car and wait till 5, like some kinda creep).
August 20th: A praying lady at a church in Cañas, in Guanacaste. I like this picture a lot. I had to go to Cañas with Lucy and Oskar to do some placement test interviews, but we got there early and had some time to kill, so we decided to check out the church.
August 21st: Angela made this funny dinner/breakfast for me, consisting of rice and beans, a salad, and a little egg chicken figurine. She called "arroz con pollito." I love my wife!
August 22nd: Today was a big day for my "to-do inside" list. Mostly, it involved hanging stuff with the drill, including some smoke alarms.
August 23rd: Today was a day for the outside "to-do" list, including moving lots of rocks and re-doing a border around the house sidewalks.
August 24th: A very, very small little frog that Angela found on our back patio. I've included a few pictures with it next to a peanut, a universal reference and comparative measurement for "something small."
