Les francais, vous savez comment ca marche maintenant... Descendez et ca causera dans une langue que vous comprenez! -------------------- I got to San Isidro de El General on Sunday, and what a day to get there! San Isidro is the patron saint of farmers here, and he is celebrated in San Isidro (no need to explain why here!) for the whole week of May, 15th- which means that on Sunday, I was welcomed by horses, and lots of them! There was a fair going on, it was really great to see a real typical Costa Rican fiesta happening in front of [View Full Entry]

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Hier die Neuigkeiten von unseren letzten Tage in Costa Rica: Golfito Golfito liegt im Sueden des Landes an der Pazifikkueste. Mit dem Auto ist diese Gegend einfach zu bereisen. Der Ort selbst ist touristisch wenig attraktiv und so machten wir Ausfluege ins Umland. Zuerst besuchten wir, wie wir schon in unserem letzten Eintrag anklingen liessen, Pavones. Dort befindet sich - hier muessen wir etwas richtig stellen - die zweitlaengste linksbrechende Welle der Welt. Leider koennen wir euch unseren Ritt auf der Welle nicht zeigen, da dieser Computer keinen USB-Anschluss hat. Nach dieser Aufregung entspannten wir an der traumhaften Playa de Zancudo. [View Full Entry]

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English speakers, you know where to find the English version... ------- Il ne faut jamais crier victoire trop tot, je sais, mais victooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire!!! Deja 4 jours seule, et je ne me suis pas encore perdue! Jeudi je me suis un peu baladee dans San Jose, surtout pour m'acheter un guide plus detaille du Costa Rica- le Lonely Planet que j'ai achete avant de partir couvre toute l'Amerique Centrale, et aussi pratique que cela m'ait paru il y a quelques mois, j'en vois maintenant les desavantages... Comme ne pas avoir de carte des petites villes, ou assez de details sur les bus, [View Full Entry]

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Hello All! On Yesterday and the day before I rented a bicycle for the afternoon. On Tuesday I went to Tapanti National Park which was a really tough uphill bike ride and got to see some of the mountains and the river that flows into Orosi. I went with a girl I met from Colorado who was studying spanish this week. On Wednesday we did another killer ride to the Ujarras Ruins which I had seen before but wanted to ride past some places that I had only visited with a driver. On both days we had great weather and I [View Full Entry]

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Hey All! Yesterday I was in Cartago again to see my veterinarian friend Jose who accepted a job in San Jose in December. He is working for the department of agriculture here and for the USDA in the US. We had a nice breakfast very close to the Basilica de Los Angelos or as is commonly said here ¨La Negrita¨. The story is as follows: A little indian girl was in the woods gathering firewood and she found a small statue in a clearing in the woods. She took the statue home and placed it with her things to play with [View Full Entry]

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Hi! This week has been busy with lessons every day and meeting some of the new people who have come to the school to study this week. I have also had lots of homework and so haven´t taken many pictures. I feel a little better speaking Spanish in Orosi, but today I took the bus to Cartago which is a much bigger city and it is difficult to talk and understand with all the hustle and bustle. The bus is a nice ride through one city that is bigger than Orosi, Parasio and then on to Cartago. Cartago is the name [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone! Yesterday, I spent the day with the family I am staying with. I baked some desserts for the kids and for the adults. In the afternoon we went to visit Marita´s sister and her parents up on the mountain where I had had my 4 hour hike on Saturday. The homes are built into the side of the mountain with ¨basements¨like in Pennsylvania. And the driving up in those mountains really does require 4 wheel drive. We did not have to use 4 wheel drive but if it were to rain heavily, driving would be nearly impossible. There were [View Full Entry]

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Hello again! Today is Saturday and no classes for me. I have spent the morning doing a 4 and one=half hour in the high mountains to the south and west of the Orosi Valley. There were really nice views (and I have photos!) of the village but I am not able to post them until I can borrow a card reader from the owner of the school next week. The owner of the internet cafe has a reader but it won´t read my card, for some reason. I wish I thought to bring my cable to connect to the parallel port [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone! Every morning I have been walking with Marita around Orosi. Marita is the mother of the family in Orosi. We have been walking every morning for at least an hour. I will try to post some pictures of the Rio Mache which is the river that runs near the town. The town gets its electricity from the river via a hydroelectric plant near the town and the river. Our walks are always around the river. There is a foot bridge that is very scary to walk on since it is a suspension bridge and it sways when we walk [View Full Entry]

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Hey! So much has happened since I arrived in Costa Rica! After I spent my first night with my assigned family we all woke up and had a sandwich, a banana and coffee for breakfast. An extended group of female friends and family had planned a walk to the hot springs starting out at 7.30 am and so I went along. It is no problem to go at that time since I was up since first light at 5.30am. I had been to the hot springs on my last visit and only put my feet in. It was an hour walk [View Full Entry]

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