So as you should know, I didnt go to Arenol Volcano with the rest of the group because it was going to be way too expensive after all the money Ive already spent. So instead Ive spent the weekend with my family, and it has proved... interesting. This morning we walked to a little Catholic church in their neighbor for the early service. I am not Catholic, so that was an experience in itself without in being in a different language. It was more boring in a language that I am not fluent in. But anyways, church is basically the same here as it is in the States. There was bunch of old ladies who like to sing louder than everyone else in a horribly out of tune voice, and the little acolytes were up front picking their noses in front of the congregation. It was weird having to sit down while almost everyone else went up for communion, but I think thats a Catholic thing not a Costa Rican thing. There werent any instruments, either. After church my tico dad and brother went to the Costa Rican equivalent of Walmart in Heredia, called Hiper Mas. Everything is so expensive in Heredia!! My tico dad told me that my Champion tennis shoes, which I purchased for 22 bucks at a Payless in Sherman, Tx, are worth 100 bucks here. A couple of their family members are going to Los Angeles to buy clothes to resale here, because they are literally at least triple the price here. An Aeropostale tshirt which values less than 20 at home is 40 or 60 here. The mall prices are outrageous, too.
After shopping, we had a little family party where my tico mom made me manicotti because I told her in passing that I really liked it. My family are the sweetest people, I really lucked out with my homestay. I do not like parties, however. It is so hard to understand everyone because they talk so fast. And my family tells them that I am good at Spanish so they dont hesitate to talk to me, REALLY REALLY fast. I feel stupid having to ask them to repeat what they said over and over again. But oh well. I was so glad that this party didnt last forever... the family left after 2 hours or so. The first party I went to here lasted almost 6 hours. That is pretty tiring when you cant understand what anyone is saying, and the guys hit on you, and the women glare at you. Its definitely a little different from home.
Well, I am going to finish up my stuff on this wonderfully fast computer at this new internet cafe I found and walk home, because its 5pm and its about to get really dark. And it is not safe to walk alone, or with a friend, after dark. Ciao!! (Thats a Costa Rican saying too, not just an Italian one. I dont know how its spelt, though).
Oh, and USA lost to Ghana! Very sad.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
cool article
I just read a fascinating article about being bilingual. http://matadortravel.com/traveler/deuglish/blog/what-happened-my-english-expat%E2%80%99s-account-gaining-new-language-sacrificing-her ... Go check it out!
T 7 Days
Hi!! I havent had much time to write because the internet at the school is so unreliable. Yesterday, all the electricity was down. I figured that every week they take the electricity off to save money, haha, and say "oh, no, it´s not working. so sorry." Anyways, so this whole being in another country has made me appreciate AC, internet access whenever I want it, and hot showers. It´s basically made me appreciate being a spoiled American.
So I stayed home this weekend (home meaning Heredia) instead of going to Mt. Arenal with my group. It is supposedly amazing but I just do not have the money for another weekend excursion. I have a lot of gifts to buy left and if I went, I probably wouldn´t have enough to eat for the rest of the week, lol. Food, along with every thing else, is very expensive here. The only thing that is cheap is their movie theatre, which is $5 a person or 2 for 1 on Wednesdays. That is a nice change from home.
Today I slept in until 8am when my mama tica made me breakfast. It is so nice to be made breakfast everyday!! She doesnt understand that at home I eat a bowl of cereal if I have time. Here, its omelettes and toasted bread and bacon and fresh fruit. And if youre me, frosted flakes too.
My family on Saturdays apparently goes and picks up reciclables to sell. They asked me if I wanted to come with them, and I declined as politely as I could. If not wanting to pick up trash on a rainy Saturday makes me a lazy American, then I am definitely a lazy American.
Yesterday was quite an adventure. After school, I headed back home to drop my backpack off before running some errands. Nobody was home, and I had never been back before everyone else, so there was a big deadlock on the door. I had the key so I unlocked it, but when I opened the next set of doors an alarm started going off. I didnt even know there was an alarm so I didnt know the code. So like an idiot, I randomly pressed a button labeled "f". F IS FOR FUEGO, which if you dont know, is fire. So an extremely loud alarm started sounding off from the garage where theres these giant speakers, and all the neighbors start freaking out. I was just like, oh crap. So I had to explain to them that there wasnt any fire, I am just a moron. So a neighbor called the fire station and told them there wasnt a fire, and my tico papa came and settled everything. A nice ending to a rather unexpected surprise.
So I only have a week left. I will definitely miss my tico family a ton, but I am not incredibly sad about leaving Costa Rica. There isnt much to do in Heredia and I was rather disoppointed with the school. If I return I will study at the national university. Im going to look into studying in other countries in South America also. And I have to go to Peru soon, because my teacher was from Peru and he said that the government might be closing Machu Picchu soon because of destructive tourists. If you are a destructive tourist, like you mark on ancient Incan temples and stuff, I am very angry at you right now. Please dont do that so everyone can enjoy the history.
So I stayed home this weekend (home meaning Heredia) instead of going to Mt. Arenal with my group. It is supposedly amazing but I just do not have the money for another weekend excursion. I have a lot of gifts to buy left and if I went, I probably wouldn´t have enough to eat for the rest of the week, lol. Food, along with every thing else, is very expensive here. The only thing that is cheap is their movie theatre, which is $5 a person or 2 for 1 on Wednesdays. That is a nice change from home.
Today I slept in until 8am when my mama tica made me breakfast. It is so nice to be made breakfast everyday!! She doesnt understand that at home I eat a bowl of cereal if I have time. Here, its omelettes and toasted bread and bacon and fresh fruit. And if youre me, frosted flakes too.
My family on Saturdays apparently goes and picks up reciclables to sell. They asked me if I wanted to come with them, and I declined as politely as I could. If not wanting to pick up trash on a rainy Saturday makes me a lazy American, then I am definitely a lazy American.
Yesterday was quite an adventure. After school, I headed back home to drop my backpack off before running some errands. Nobody was home, and I had never been back before everyone else, so there was a big deadlock on the door. I had the key so I unlocked it, but when I opened the next set of doors an alarm started going off. I didnt even know there was an alarm so I didnt know the code. So like an idiot, I randomly pressed a button labeled "f". F IS FOR FUEGO, which if you dont know, is fire. So an extremely loud alarm started sounding off from the garage where theres these giant speakers, and all the neighbors start freaking out. I was just like, oh crap. So I had to explain to them that there wasnt any fire, I am just a moron. So a neighbor called the fire station and told them there wasnt a fire, and my tico papa came and settled everything. A nice ending to a rather unexpected surprise.
So I only have a week left. I will definitely miss my tico family a ton, but I am not incredibly sad about leaving Costa Rica. There isnt much to do in Heredia and I was rather disoppointed with the school. If I return I will study at the national university. Im going to look into studying in other countries in South America also. And I have to go to Peru soon, because my teacher was from Peru and he said that the government might be closing Machu Picchu soon because of destructive tourists. If you are a destructive tourist, like you mark on ancient Incan temples and stuff, I am very angry at you right now. Please dont do that so everyone can enjoy the history.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Day 16... I think
So its been over two weeks in Costa Rica and I am TIRED. We went to Manuel Antonio this weekend and the drive was only 3 hours to get there, which was a dream after the six hours it took to get to Rincon de La Vieja last weekend. It was a very pretty beach with a super nice hotel (by Costa Rica standards, you cant compare everything here with the luxury you might be used to in the United States) that had AC, wifi, and a flat screen tv in the rooms. It was really pretty, white and orange terracotta with a pool on the second floor. I took pics and will upload them as soon as I can. More importantly, we were just a 2 minute walk away from a gorgeous beach, and we all rented surfboards and boogie boards for 10 bucks for a whole day, and one of my friends managed to get us free surf lessons which was awesome. I never managed to stand up on the board, but it was still amazingly fun. The waves were rough (for me, the beginning surfer, at least) and the day after I felt like I had been beaten. But it was totally worth it, when I get home I am going to look into surf lessons it California. Hey, it might happen!
We went on a jungle hike to go to this other beach that was supposedly nicer, but I liked the first beach better. What is important about this jungle hike though is that we saw two sloths!! They are really rare to see, and after we got back to the hotel there was another sloth on a pole next to one of the guys' rooms. It was booking it down the pole, I had no idea that sloths could move that fast. Pretty awesome to see a sloth within arms reach. They have some pretty wicked looking claws.
On the way home on Sunday morning, we opted to take the scenic route. That made a 3 hour trip by van an 8 hour trip by van, through the mountains. I dont like to take medicine, but I have to take a dramamine or whatever before I get into the van because the roads are so rough and if you take the route through the mountains you are bound to get car sick. On our way to Cartago, we saw yet ANOTHER sloth, and it was moving really fast on a telephone pole horizontally. Talk about luck!! Our teacher, who has been here 5 times now, has only seen 2 before this trip.
We stopped in Cartago to see this chapel which is a huge gorgeous church. Supposedly back in the day, a little indian girl found a doll of the Virgin Mary in a clearing and took it home and put it in a box, but it disappeared the next day and went back to the rock. She did this like three times before the little girl went to find a priest and tell him about him, and he decided to build this church where they found the doll. Now Costa Ricans go every year on the 2nd of August to visit this church, kind of like a pilgrammage, walking from all areas of Costa Rica. When they get to the church, which is SUPER long, they get on their knees and crawl the whole way up to the church. Outside the church, theres a spot that has holey water in it that you can put on a hurting body part to ask for healing. Also, they have a store where you can buy a charm of any body part (and I mean ANY body part) and it will supposedly heal it. Its a pretty cool tradition, but a lot of people didnt do it last year because of the H1N1 scare. Until next time... Hasta luego.
We went on a jungle hike to go to this other beach that was supposedly nicer, but I liked the first beach better. What is important about this jungle hike though is that we saw two sloths!! They are really rare to see, and after we got back to the hotel there was another sloth on a pole next to one of the guys' rooms. It was booking it down the pole, I had no idea that sloths could move that fast. Pretty awesome to see a sloth within arms reach. They have some pretty wicked looking claws.
On the way home on Sunday morning, we opted to take the scenic route. That made a 3 hour trip by van an 8 hour trip by van, through the mountains. I dont like to take medicine, but I have to take a dramamine or whatever before I get into the van because the roads are so rough and if you take the route through the mountains you are bound to get car sick. On our way to Cartago, we saw yet ANOTHER sloth, and it was moving really fast on a telephone pole horizontally. Talk about luck!! Our teacher, who has been here 5 times now, has only seen 2 before this trip.
We stopped in Cartago to see this chapel which is a huge gorgeous church. Supposedly back in the day, a little indian girl found a doll of the Virgin Mary in a clearing and took it home and put it in a box, but it disappeared the next day and went back to the rock. She did this like three times before the little girl went to find a priest and tell him about him, and he decided to build this church where they found the doll. Now Costa Ricans go every year on the 2nd of August to visit this church, kind of like a pilgrammage, walking from all areas of Costa Rica. When they get to the church, which is SUPER long, they get on their knees and crawl the whole way up to the church. Outside the church, theres a spot that has holey water in it that you can put on a hurting body part to ask for healing. Also, they have a store where you can buy a charm of any body part (and I mean ANY body part) and it will supposedly heal it. Its a pretty cool tradition, but a lot of people didnt do it last year because of the H1N1 scare. Until next time... Hasta luego.
Friday, June 18, 2010
So....
Its been an interesting couple of days. It gets harder and harder to be without internet and phones! I now have my moms laptop and a phone, but the phone doesnt get service. I will try to keep updating this in a more daily fashion. For the weekend, we are at Manual Antonio beach. I havent seen much of it yet because it was getting dark when we arrived. So far theres a really pretty beach and a couple little stores that sell jewelry and dresses and purses and such. Were about to go to dinner and hopefully it wont be too expensive. TTYL.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Well it is Friday...
Friday means test day here at the Intercultura Escuela. Mom is graduating because she is leaving on Monday, and I am just taking a test to hopefully advance into the next level. I hope I do!!! I also have a presentation about a Costa Rican legend.... I am presenting the story of the Bribris god Sibu and how he created the earth. It amazes me how similar different cultures religions are. A lot of the time the idea of one God is the same and just has a different name.
Well I am going to school and then we are leaving for Rincon de la Vieja.. a volcano!!
Well I am going to school and then we are leaving for Rincon de la Vieja.. a volcano!!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Blog listed on the web!! Almost
I contacted DIWYY to try and get my blog listed on their website, and a lady already emailed me back and said she would watch it for a couple of weeks and see if it would be good for their website!! Also, to make sure I am not a crazy. Anyways, I am very excited to get my blog listed out on travel websites so other students like me can learn about the dos and donts of studying abroad. For one thing, appreciate your computer and cell phone!! They are not as easily accesible in a foreign country. Yes, Costa Rica is updated in all things tech, but maybe not for people who are here temporarily. For example, my Spanish teacher who brought my group here advised us not to bring our laptops. Which is probably a good idea, seeing as theft is a major problem in the cities. But man do I wish I had mine!! My Tico family has a very small personal computer but no internet, and this is day 5 without any cellphone service. Hopefully I can figure that out in the near future, seeing as my mom paid for me to have it. Also, all that I want right now is a way to upload my pics onto the internet!! I have not seen a public computer that takes memory cards, and I dont know if my camera will use a usb cord. Plus I dont have one anyways.
This evening my mom and I are going to San Jose with my family to do some shopping. Supposedly there is a really great art fare that has lots of cheap jewelry. And I am all for cheap stuff.
Yesterday night, some friends and I went to go see Sex and the City 2 at the mall in Heredia. It looked just like anything else we have in Texas.. It was cool to see the movie with Spanish at the bottom... Whats that called again? Its not dubbed...
And it was super funny albeit dumb. Im not really into Sex and the City.
Well anyways, my hours almost up at the internet cafe and I have to trek back to my house which is like a million blocks away. Everything is measured in blocks, or esquinas. I live muchas esquinas away from the school...
I have to make a presentation about a Costa Rican legend tomorrow. And take my first little weekly test that will allow me to move up a level or make me stay in the same class. I love my teacher so I almost dont want to move up!!!
This evening my mom and I are going to San Jose with my family to do some shopping. Supposedly there is a really great art fare that has lots of cheap jewelry. And I am all for cheap stuff.
Yesterday night, some friends and I went to go see Sex and the City 2 at the mall in Heredia. It looked just like anything else we have in Texas.. It was cool to see the movie with Spanish at the bottom... Whats that called again? Its not dubbed...
And it was super funny albeit dumb. Im not really into Sex and the City.
Well anyways, my hours almost up at the internet cafe and I have to trek back to my house which is like a million blocks away. Everything is measured in blocks, or esquinas. I live muchas esquinas away from the school...
I have to make a presentation about a Costa Rican legend tomorrow. And take my first little weekly test that will allow me to move up a level or make me stay in the same class. I love my teacher so I almost dont want to move up!!!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
More pictures!!
These are from the same batch of pics Ive taken in the last couple of days...
Another picture of the street... To give you kind of an idea of what Heredia looks like.
Some delicious fruit at a market!!!
Another church pic... The buildings are verrry pretty.
KFC!!! They also have McDonalds, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc. Just in case youre tired of the regular rice and beans.
Another picture of the street... To give you kind of an idea of what Heredia looks like.
Some delicious fruit at a market!!!
Another church pic... The buildings are verrry pretty.
KFC!!! They also have McDonalds, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc. Just in case youre tired of the regular rice and beans.
Day 4...
Well, today is day 4 in my month of Costa Rica. Day 4 without cellphones, cars, or computer let alone internet in my near reach. Right now Im using a school computer which Im pretty sure you have to be studying on but its nicer than going to the internet cafe. Theres a window AC in here, for one reason.
Well, I have a lot of mixed feelings about Costa Rica. I love learning the language, I love my little Tica familia, and I love the mountains. But some things are kind of hard to deal with. For example, Im not used to having to dodge cars and motorcycles who accelerate when youre trying to cross the street. Or wear my backpack in the front so no one steals anything. Or avoid eye contact with guys who yell things like beautiful and kiss me at us girls. Before I came, I considered renting a house and living for a year here while teaching at the intercultura school. But sometimes now I dont now if I can make it for a month. Im here to learn the language, but the atmosphere is very hard for a Texas girl to get used to. And the fact that Ticos apparently hate white people is hard to take, also.
Its hard not being able to talk to my boyfriend at all times, too. Im used to him either being with me, or being able to text him. Its definitely a challenge. I miss him, but travelling and learning abroad is very important to me. I just wish he could come, too...
Today my teacher took me and my one other classmate to the capitol, San Jose. As soon as I can, Ill upload some amazing pics.. Of the presidents house, of the theatre which looks like it was picked up and brought here from Rome, and the two museums we went to today. The first one, the National Museum of Costa Rica, was pretty interesting. In class were learning about the indigenous people of Costa Rica like the bribris and some other tribe names I cant remember. Basically Costa Ricas version of the Mayans and Incans. Oh yeah, and I cant put the little quote sign. Its not that I have bad grammar.
Anyways, the National Museum of Costa Rica has a bunch of pre-colombian artifacts. Like these huge stoney spheres of all different sizes which are like the Costa Rican equivalent of the statues on Easter Island. Supposedly, the larger the perfectly round stone, the more power a tribe had. They range from HUGE stones like a couple meters in diameter to like half a meter in diameter. Sorry, Im in the Costa Rican way of measuring right now. No feet for me. Its very interesting, because its such a mystery. And the museum had its usual really really old pottery and statues with very large... ahem. I took a picture but I dont know if its general web use appropriate. Lol.
The Museum of Gold was very boring for me. Im not really interested in looking at artifacts, and the Mesuem of Gold just had stuff made out of... gold. Like little freaky statues of bats and lizards and stuff. It was kinda cool, but not 3500 colones cool. Thats about seven dollars in American. You basically just double the amount and then move the decimal to the left two places. Easist thing to do.
I bought a really cute tiny tiny purse. I really want some super light linen pants, because the weirdest thing is Ticos DO NOT wear shorts. So if you wear shorts, all the guys stare at you. Not very nice. I would like to not stick out so much. Plus the pants look pretty cool... Like Egyptian princess cool. HAHA jk. Everyone here wears jeans or pants or long capris, because its winter for them. But its HOT to me!!!
Anyways, Ill try to put some pics up soon. I have no way of uploading them unless I borrow my teachers computer which has a slot for a memory card. Hasta Luego!
Well, I have a lot of mixed feelings about Costa Rica. I love learning the language, I love my little Tica familia, and I love the mountains. But some things are kind of hard to deal with. For example, Im not used to having to dodge cars and motorcycles who accelerate when youre trying to cross the street. Or wear my backpack in the front so no one steals anything. Or avoid eye contact with guys who yell things like beautiful and kiss me at us girls. Before I came, I considered renting a house and living for a year here while teaching at the intercultura school. But sometimes now I dont now if I can make it for a month. Im here to learn the language, but the atmosphere is very hard for a Texas girl to get used to. And the fact that Ticos apparently hate white people is hard to take, also.
Its hard not being able to talk to my boyfriend at all times, too. Im used to him either being with me, or being able to text him. Its definitely a challenge. I miss him, but travelling and learning abroad is very important to me. I just wish he could come, too...
Today my teacher took me and my one other classmate to the capitol, San Jose. As soon as I can, Ill upload some amazing pics.. Of the presidents house, of the theatre which looks like it was picked up and brought here from Rome, and the two museums we went to today. The first one, the National Museum of Costa Rica, was pretty interesting. In class were learning about the indigenous people of Costa Rica like the bribris and some other tribe names I cant remember. Basically Costa Ricas version of the Mayans and Incans. Oh yeah, and I cant put the little quote sign. Its not that I have bad grammar.
Anyways, the National Museum of Costa Rica has a bunch of pre-colombian artifacts. Like these huge stoney spheres of all different sizes which are like the Costa Rican equivalent of the statues on Easter Island. Supposedly, the larger the perfectly round stone, the more power a tribe had. They range from HUGE stones like a couple meters in diameter to like half a meter in diameter. Sorry, Im in the Costa Rican way of measuring right now. No feet for me. Its very interesting, because its such a mystery. And the museum had its usual really really old pottery and statues with very large... ahem. I took a picture but I dont know if its general web use appropriate. Lol.
The Museum of Gold was very boring for me. Im not really interested in looking at artifacts, and the Mesuem of Gold just had stuff made out of... gold. Like little freaky statues of bats and lizards and stuff. It was kinda cool, but not 3500 colones cool. Thats about seven dollars in American. You basically just double the amount and then move the decimal to the left two places. Easist thing to do.
I bought a really cute tiny tiny purse. I really want some super light linen pants, because the weirdest thing is Ticos DO NOT wear shorts. So if you wear shorts, all the guys stare at you. Not very nice. I would like to not stick out so much. Plus the pants look pretty cool... Like Egyptian princess cool. HAHA jk. Everyone here wears jeans or pants or long capris, because its winter for them. But its HOT to me!!!
Anyways, Ill try to put some pics up soon. I have no way of uploading them unless I borrow my teachers computer which has a slot for a memory card. Hasta Luego!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Pictures!!
My teacher let me upload pics on her computer!!!
The beautiful church... Catholic I think.
My itty bitty but incredibly sufficient room.
A picture from the street... I think I was on a bus. Translation: I was going REALLY fast.
The beautiful church... Catholic I think.
My itty bitty but incredibly sufficient room.
A picture from the street... I think I was on a bus. Translation: I was going REALLY fast.
hola from COSTA RICA!!!
Hola, I have been in Costa Rica for three days now and I really like it. I have learned sooo much Spanish already. The first two days I got here, two cars I rode in broke down. I have been told that´s not the norm! Heredia is very, very, very busy and noisy and the cars have the right of way which is something new. Also, even though my phone has international, it doesn´t have service so I can´t use it. And I didn´t bring my computer. So I have to fight for the two computers that are available in the whole school of Costa Rica, or as I am doing right now, use the internet cafe for less than a dollar an hour. But there´s no AC... oh well can´t have everything.
I would LOVE to post pics up, especially since I want my picture to be on the front page of the DIWYY.com website, I currently of no way of doing so. My camera is a piece of junk, and I don´t have a USB cord. The computers don´t take memory cards as far as I know. It´s so hard to not have all of the technology you´re used to.
My tico family is super nice. I have my own room, which is small but has sufficient closet space which is what´s important anyways. The water in the shower is very cold. I got it up to lukewarm this morning, and I was very excited.
Mom seems to be enjoying herself, too. It´s going to be weird when she leaves on the 14th. I will probably miss home a lot more then.
I am very excited to be doing this, I really want to travel but most importantly LIVE abroad. That´s how you really learn a place. But I don´t think I will want to live permanently in Costa Rica. In general, the people do not seem very nice. Or at least they do not like white people. You get stares where ever you go, and they´re not nice. My teacher in the school and my family are definitely exceptions though. I wonder if this is how it feels to be a minority in Texas...
Anyways, I have a few minutes left on my hour that I paid for here. I hope to keep my blog updated but I never know when I´ll have access. Especially not on the weekends, though, because I´ll be out. This weekend we are going to Arenol Volcano, and doing the zipline and riding horses and some other crazy stuff. I don´t care about riding horses, because we have those at home. But I hear there´s a hot spring...
I would LOVE to post pics up, especially since I want my picture to be on the front page of the DIWYY.com website, I currently of no way of doing so. My camera is a piece of junk, and I don´t have a USB cord. The computers don´t take memory cards as far as I know. It´s so hard to not have all of the technology you´re used to.
My tico family is super nice. I have my own room, which is small but has sufficient closet space which is what´s important anyways. The water in the shower is very cold. I got it up to lukewarm this morning, and I was very excited.
Mom seems to be enjoying herself, too. It´s going to be weird when she leaves on the 14th. I will probably miss home a lot more then.
I am very excited to be doing this, I really want to travel but most importantly LIVE abroad. That´s how you really learn a place. But I don´t think I will want to live permanently in Costa Rica. In general, the people do not seem very nice. Or at least they do not like white people. You get stares where ever you go, and they´re not nice. My teacher in the school and my family are definitely exceptions though. I wonder if this is how it feels to be a minority in Texas...
Anyways, I have a few minutes left on my hour that I paid for here. I hope to keep my blog updated but I never know when I´ll have access. Especially not on the weekends, though, because I´ll be out. This weekend we are going to Arenol Volcano, and doing the zipline and riding horses and some other crazy stuff. I don´t care about riding horses, because we have those at home. But I hear there´s a hot spring...
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The Renting Revolution: Chegg.com
So I was trying to sell my used textbooks at the end of this semester, and I got mad at amazon (where I usually sell them) because they took a fee of like 11 bucks out of my already very cheaply priced text book. So I tried out chegg.com, a website that buys back and rents out textbooks. I sold my astronomy textbook, a book that amazon wouldn't even list for me, for $35. Chegg paid for shipping and I just packed my book in a box, slapped the sticker on it, and put it in a UPS mailbox. They sent me a check within a week and a half. :) Yay! I love checks written to me. And now I'm going to rent my geology book for my summer class for $28 instead of purchasing it new for $178. Sweet deal. It sounds kind of fishy at first, but after I got my check I'm a believer. Buying textbooks is such a ripoff because most of the time theres a new edition out before you can sell your's. Plus I have a code, CC127417, where the buyer gets 5% off their books and $5 more on the buy-backs. And I get $5 on every order :) Sweet.
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