I signed up to a 3 week volunteer programme in Costa Rica, living with a 'tico' family, learning Spanish and volunteering in an nursery.....sounded fun, what coud be so hard haha I think I took it for granted that almost every country I have visited have spoken amazing English, and also I think I expected there to be more English speaking people enrolled on the volunteer programme! Actually my first day, after a long 11 hour flight and a 2 hour wait in passport control (zzzz....) I was greeted by Tanya, the Inlex co-ordinater, who quickly realised my Spanish was non existent.....I managed to understand that I am the only person from England she has ever met and the programme is usually all Germans. She dropped me at the home of my new tico family and
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