Fabzgy´s Life

A thread about the Costa Rica Camp, another member from Costa Rica created on the Forum was moved to another category. I moved it back and sent the following message to HC´s Forum Moderators god from Australia:

“Hey,
I moved the Costa Rica Camp back to Events, Camps Category because it has nothing to do with Meeting Place.

Please remove my rights of moderators because I do not agree with your interpretation of Forum rules!

Please do also remove my rights as comment volunteer. I just want to to be a basic member. If posible without premoderation!

Fabian”

A few minutes later he finally removed all my “Volunteer Rights” on the Hospitality Club Site.

I think he moved the thread from “Meetings, Events, Camps” into “Meeting Place” which is intended to be the place where single travellers arange meetings. He removed the link to our Costa Rica Camp Reistration Page because there is a logo of BW next to the CS and the Hospitality Club Logo. That is, following babso´s rules, BW promotion and wil be deleted imediatelly.

The reply I ve got from a well known moderator enforces this theory. He explained that he moved the thread to the meeting place “because there is not much organisation behind the event and it is not of the scale of the big camps promoted in HC”.

We expect that the camp will be hosting members from at least 8 different nationalities and there will arrive inbetween 50 and 100 people. Organizing a shuttle service from the ferry to the camp site, organizing food for all this people, gather people who are organizing workshops and excursion, setting up a website and investing money for a domain etc. is definitely way more work then 80 % of the meetings announced in this Forum Category!

I now hope I m not getting kicked out of Hospitality Club as they did with claudiaab when she was organizing a camp in Aachen. At this time she was still a Local Volunteer in the Hospitality Club. If everyone who is trying to organize meetings have been afraid of getting kicked out of the club the activity will sink until zero…

First the nice Bafög bullshit you ve got to takte care all the time.
There is one single office which is responsible for all German Students goingto Costa Rica but they want every single bullshit translated. Then they are availabe by phone from 9-13 pm UTC - thats 2 am till 7 am here in Costa Rica in Winter time and 1 am - 6 am in summer time. Thanks for cooperation. They do not reply to e-mails and send you letters back home to your german post adress - an adress where I m not gonna be for the next 10 months!!!
Maybe some of you think - well don t complain, now you are in Costa Rica and there everything should be easier. No it s not! Here the people talk to you but they have no idea what they are talking about. For every little certification you need to bring along your passport and even if you have contrary instructions what to do they force you to do the wrong thing. I m so angry about these people here.

Because of their stupidness I m loosing time & money!!!

Friday afternoon I ve got an E-Mail fom Malte, a BeWelcome friend traveling in Central Amierca. We aretrying to arange a meeting since a while but ending up getting confused all the time. Last friday I was upset of this and decided to put out the thumb on the next day to hitchhike to Nicaragua. I started htichhiking about 9 am in the morning after paying a fee of 240 colones (~1/2 US $) for not bringing back the books I lend from the University Library (like all the time). It was kind of hard to get out of San Jose but after ~1/2 hour a truck driver gave me a ride to Puntarenas where I drank a coconut and juggled a bit in the sun. After 5 minutes two cars stoped for me at the same time, goingto the same destination (Liberia) and I had to choose one of them. In Liberia I decided to take the bus (which was supposed to arrive “ahorita”). After 10 minutes of juggling I put out the thumb again and the first truck stoped for me and brought me right to the border. There, after the ugly imigracion procedure (7 US $ entrance fee to get into Nicaragua and barganing with the cash exchanger), I catched to buses in order to catch the last ferry leaving from Rivas to the Ometepe Islands at 5:30 pm.
On the way to the Island I met a german who is studying psycology in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua since three years. So you see, I m not the only one studying down here.

I easily found the hostel where I was supposed to meet Malte but he wasn t there. So I ended up testingthe Nicaraguan beer with a local who lived in Germany for 15 years duringthe 70s an 80s. Interesting to get your own history explained by a 50 years old nicaraguan speaking almost fluent german.

Nevertheles within two beers, or lets say half an hour Malte turned up and we decided very soon that we both want to visit the Concepcion Volcano (1600+ meters) the folowing day.

Thats what we did on the entire sunday. It was pretty hard to get up to the top. I did not only require a lot of strength but as well a lot on social competence to convince our guide that it must be included in the tour to reach the top. As a result of this hike my legs were hurting for at least five days.

On Monday we took a bus and cruised around the Island to get to the port where the ferrys are leaving to San Carlos, Rio San Juan.
When we bought the ticket we decided to take thue first class tickets in order to have a bit more comfortable stay. That was the wrong decision. The onl difference between the first and the second class is the air-condition which freezes you to death… I ended up sleeping outside, using my towel as a matress.

In San Carlos we hang out for a few hours and catched the next boat to El Castillio. A fortress built in the 17 th century to protect Granada of “French, english an other Pirates” (Lonely Planet Quote) looting the city.

In el Castilio we met Denis in the museum. We hang out for a while in the municipal library and talked about latin american politics and left / anticapitalistic movements. I hope I gonna meet him here in San Jose soon.

Wednesday I ve got back to San Jose, Costa Rica in order to go to clases on Thursday and Friday. Instead of readingthe texts I m uploading Picures.

It s gonna happen.

The first ever Costa Rica Camp organised by the fellow mates i ve got to know here.

The Registration is open and Information can be found here: http://www.gastameco.org/

Yesterday I had my first surf experiences. Thats amazing. We met at 6 am in the morning to catch the bus at 7 in town. Drove down to Jaco beach where we got at 9.30 am.
I ve rented a (very) long Board and went with Ole straight to the water. It was alaready a bit busy down there but the first 30 minutes I was busy with white water surfing and fighting against the wave and my board).
After that I managed to get outto the other surfers and chilled out there for a while. It s a wonderfull panorama there. Sitting in the water, watching your fellow surfmates and once in a while you try to catch a wave.
With the longboard it wasn t really hard to stnd on it - keeping standing on it for a long while is sth. more difficult. The waves have been pretty big today and I learned a lot about the sea.

Looking forward to rock the beach again with Ole. !

It s a pitty but 20 six.de does not permitt to export the blogs there. There are several clients which are supposed to archive your Blog but since they changed to another software it looks like this tools do not work anymore. Anyway - I ve got to move from there.

So welcome to my new Blog!