On Thursday night, I went out with a bunch of exchange students I've met here in our area we live in called "Rio Piedras." We were told that Thursday nights in Rio Piedras are kind of a big deal because they are "college nights" and this is the biggest university on the island. So, sure enough, we walked out of our dorm area and looked down the street and it was completely packed for almost 2 blocks!
We didn't stay out too late but it was neat to see how our area is the palce to be on Thursdays--especially since I don't have class on Fridays! Also, on our way home we stopped at a street vendor making food and tried "mofongo" for the first time. Mofongo is a puerto rican, and carribean dish that is fried green plantains in olive oil and garlic, which can be stuffed with meat or seafood, but i just tried mine plain!
We didn't stay out too late but it was neat to see how our area is the palce to be on Thursdays--especially since I don't have class on Fridays! Also, on our way home we stopped at a street vendor making food and tried "mofongo" for the first time. Mofongo is a puerto rican, and carribean dish that is fried green plantains in olive oil and garlic, which can be stuffed with meat or seafood, but i just tried mine plain! Thats what it looks like above-- yea it doesn't look too appetizing but it wasn't too bad!
On Friday, since a lot of us didn't have class we decided to go to the beach! We actually have to take a cab to beach because we on the southern outskirts of San Juan. We went to a beach called Ocean Park in San Juan-- it was right in between Old San Juan and Isla Verde (two well known areas here in San Juan). Ocean Park was cool because it was a strip of beach area that was clean and beautiful and not crowded at all because its an area with hardly any hotels!
