Goodbyes

When I got back from Monteverde, I had exactly six days to have as many reunions and goodbyes as I could. First, a game night with the crew of “Apertura.” I left with zero pictures but we laughed so hard we almost cried and I was reminded of all this crew meant to me, allowing […]

Monteverde

I was up late the night before this last big trip. My emotions were running high from seeing many of my classmates for the last time and screening our films we worked so hard on all semester. After getting home, submitting my last assignment of the semester, and packing up my backpack for the next […]

Chasing Waterfalls

We headed to Jacó just two hours from San José for a waterfall tour on Saturday. I didn’t know exactly what to expect from the tour, but it turned out to be an amazing trip out of my comfort zone. We started out walking into the rainforest, where our guide stopped to point out some […]

Post-Protest

Remember how the Social Sciences building was occupied by student protests for two weeks? When we came back for our first classes, the building looked a little different. Part of the agreement the protesters made was to leave up the messages they had decorated the school with, excluding anything explicitly offensive, which will be removed. […]

Rodaje

“Rodaje” is one of my favorite new words I’ve learned, and I’ve been using it a lot lately. It means shooting/filming, which is exactly what my crew and I have been doing the past few weeks. We did our principal filming last Sunday and Monday night, from 6pm to 7am. Yes that’s right, a 13 […]

October Update

school and routine A lot of this month has involved preparing to shoot our short film, Apertura. We worked on green screen (my first time) and filmed a practice version of our opening scene to see if the visual effects we’re planning on using needed any extra work. In my sculpture class my vase is […]

Manzanillo

I planned this trip less than a week before we left. I decided I wanted to do a school project over the impact of tourism in Manzanillo, a small town on the Caribbean coast I had visited with my mom in July. Luckily, one of my Grupo de Kansas friends wanted to tag along. I […]

Manuel Antonio

Monkeys!!! That’s how I would sum up this trip in a word. I won’t make you scroll, here they are! We started this trip with yet another bus ride. This one was a quick 4 hours, and we arrived around 2pm. This gave us time to walk the many steps up to our Airbnb and […]

Coffee Tour and Gold Museum

First, a few highlights from this week of school. On Wednesday I had a very long sculpture class spent preparing our clay to be shaped. We all lined up with our wooden trays and waited to receive huge globs of wet clay, the beginnings of our final projects. To get the clay dry enough to […]

Volcán Irazú

This week I literally had my head in the clouds. On Thursday I decided somewhat spontaneously to join some of the other international students on a trip to the Irazú volcano. But before I get to that, let me take you through the highlights of the rest of the week. This week I explored taking […]