Alajuela Weekend

Since I only have class during the morning, I try to fill up my afternoons with something other than homework, especially on Fridays. This Friday I met up with the Grupo de Kansas girls for lunch at a cafe called Ohana that specializes in egg waffles, milkshakes, and acai bowls. I was missing Kansas Barbecue […]

El Mercado Central

Last weekend a few of us went to downtown San José to visit the Mercado Central again. You can read about our first trip there in my post about the first month of classes, and check out some highlights from our second visit below.

Classes Begin (Again!)

Two weeks ago I went to my first class at the University of Costa Rica (UCR). Now that I’ve started to get into something of a routine, here’s the rundown on what a week of school looks like for me so far. Monday My first class of the week is Realización de Cortometraje (Short Film […]

First Month of Classes

This week hasn’t all been beaches and tropical vistas. During the last four weeks we’ve been completing a 3-credit-hour orientation class made up of three sections: Writing, Costa Rican Culture and History. Through these classes I have learned a lot in a short amount of time. I now feel like I have a general understanding […]

Limón

This weekend my mom came to San José and we went to Limón, a province on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica to visit 3 places: Cahuita, Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo. On our way there we took a really fun pit stop, white water rafting in the Pacuare river. The Pacuare river rafting started with […]

Punta Leona

We went to the beach! Our trip started on Sunday. We took a bus just two hours from San Jose (stopped to see some crocodiles) and ended up on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica in the province of Punta Leona. On the first day we walked down to the beach from our hotel […]

First Days

Hello! I’m just getting my bearings for this new setting, but I feel like I’m off to a good start. Some highlights from the past six days: Getting to meet my host family, which includes my two host moms and two host sisters who both came for a study abroad trip like I did, and […]