Hola todos y todas! This is my last entry that follows my semester abroad in Costa Rica so try not to be too upset that this blog FINALLY has come to an end. And thank you for reading! Anyways so i'm leaving in three days! wow. It’s really weird because while it feels like I got here just yesterday, I can't remember at what point I became so comfortable here that’s its going to be really hard to leave. And while it feels great to be done with the semester of schooling with all the exams and final projects over, I'm really going to miss the traveling and the great things about being here. I love how most people always seem to be happy and how a greeting isn't hard to come by. I love all ... read more

Just got back from my week long Semana Santa trip and it was pretty awesome, probably one of the coolest trips yet. SO i sure your wondering where we went right? We went south... Actually the village ( because it was tiny tiny) is called Altamira and its about an hour north of the Panama border in the Puntarenas province. Eight of us got hooked up through our ISEP coordinator to this organization called ASOPROLA, located just outside of the Nacional Parque La Amistad (largest national park in Costa Rica which stretches into Panama). So its this really awesome group that has started to cultivate the land organically and makes several organic products such as coffee, marmalade, and shampoo. So it was really great because we got to go down there, stay in their cabins for ... read more

Hola! Back again and It has officially been two months! Ehh makes me nervous cause I still fill like i have alot of goals left to accomplish.. como 1) master Spanish (not even close) 2) make ALOT of tico friends which is actually i alot harder than I thought it was going to be. Was it stupid to assume that because I am an exchange student that people were going to just automatically want to be my friend? Silly girl.. All i have to say is that I'm going to be super super nice to any and all exchange students when I get back home. Okay its not like anyone here is mean (well there have been a few "interesting" incidents) but not too many are just super friendly. I have starting going to this English ... read more

hi! I know i have left you in suspense but here is why... This week i learned kind of how I need to handle mysef when my internet stops working, which is one of my computers favorite passtimes. I don't know why i feel so helpless without it but then after two days of it not working, it magically comes back on, I thank God, and my mood skyrockets. More of those to come, I'm sure. School this week was a lot more of the same, I have a project due in a couple of weeks! The group, which for now is settling in to be eight of us from ISEP, traveled to La Fortuna this weekend which is a little, but not surprisingly touristy town that sits as close as it dares to the active ... read more

Hello! Long time, no talk. This week was my first week of classes! Well lets just say i didn't get much out of my classes and by that I mean I didn't really know what was going on in my three classes with fast talking Costa Rican teachers, confusing syllabus, and other costa rican students. Let me paint you a picture... I meet my friend Brandon to walk to our first tico class, we get there kind of late so we have to sit on the front row.. awesome. There are like six other US students from my group in the class too but the room is mostly full of other Costa Rican students. The professor finally arrives and says that there is too many people here and goes back to get the role to see ... read more