There's No Such Thing as Dry in Parismina

So I've officially made it to my project site. It's this tiny town called Parismina. There's only about 600 people in the town, and almost none of them speak english. My host family speaks absolutely NO english, which so far has made it really hard to communicate. I've already been bitten by mosquitos about 5 times, and they itch just the same as idaho mosquito bites
The bus ride here was really long. The first leg wasn't too bad, there was air conditioning, and after the first half hour or so, I took a dramamine so I passed out. When we got to Seguirres, we had to walk two blocks down the street to find the next bus. It was a sort of local bus, so there wasn't any air conditioning, and I had to squeeze my bag between my legs. I wanted to die from the heat, so I bought this ice pop thing from a guy that was selling them on the bus. It was amazing. The only way I can think to describe it is that they took the insides of a coconut (milk, meat, and bits of shell) and froze it in a long skinny bag. When we got off the bus, we had to wait for a water taxi to take us to Parismina. That trip was pretty fun with the breeze and the water. When I was shown into my host families house, and to my room, I had to sit for a minute and recover. As dry and cool as I thought San Pedro was, so hot and humid Parismina is. It's even more hot and humid than I thought Costa Rica was going to be.
Besides the heat, it's a pretty cool town with more bars than stores or schools. I swear more that fifty percent of their income must come from the sale of alcohol.
After orientation and the town tour I am now settling down for a nap. My first shift of beach walking starts at midnight tonight and goes until 4 in the morning. My sleep schedule is going to suffer severely from this trip. I am pretty excited about free time though. There are supposed to be some pretty cool places near here to go scuba diving. Also, there's a nature reserve where there are jaguars and monkey and animals galore. I'll deffinitely be using one of my free days to visit there. We get one free day off a week, which isn't much, but we only have about 6 hours of work for every 24 hour period.
The one thing about this town that I don't like is it's lack of connection. My international cell phone that I brought is absolutely useless, as there's no service, and I'm going to have to beg some locals to let me use their internet to post this blog. My own host family doesn't have internet, and I doubt they even have a phone. One of the other volunteers' family has WiFi though, so hopefully I'll be able to use it. Otherwise, I'll just keep stocking up blogs and post them all at once when I get back to San Jose three weeks from noww.