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Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – City Life
Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – City Life The city life for me was something very new because I live in the country where you have to drive everywhere to get to the place you need to be. In Alajuela there were mainly just one-way streets because everything was so narrow. All of […]
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Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – Family Life
Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – Family Life My housing situation in Costa Rica was wonderful, my host family treated me as if I was a daughter and they had known me forever. I lived with a woman named Mayra who lived one block from the school with her son Paulo and his […]
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Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – Life at School
Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – Life at School The school that I attended in Costa Rica was not what I expected when I got there on the first day. It was small, but I felt the instruction and the techniques were equally as good as those in the United States. Our class […]
French Vocabulary: Places in the City – Education
Identify: French Vocabulary: Places in the City – Education le vocabulaire français: les endroits dans la ville – l’éducation If you want to travel to French-speaking cities around the world, you’ll need to know what things are called. Learning the names of places around the city will give you the independence to explore the city […]
French Vocabulary: Places in the City – Medical
Identify: French Vocabulary: Places in the City – Medical le vocabulaire français: les endroits dans la ville – médical If you want to travel to French-speaking cities around the world, you’ll need to know what things are called. Learning the names of places around the city will give you the independence to explore the city […]
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Aero: Kelsey Burbank – Costa Rica 2014 – Life at School
Aero: Kelsey Burbank – Costa Rica 2014 – Life at School The school was different from what I had experienced in the United States. The classroom was smaller and with there being only six of us on the trip the class was very small. The teacher we had was very nice and she was very […]
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Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Biodiversity
Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Biodiversity When I think of Costa Rica’s biodiversity I think of sunny 80-degree weather, which is a lot better than -30 degrees in New York State in the month of January, and I also think of all the volcanoes, plants and wildlife that make up such a […]
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Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Food and Dining
Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Food and Dining Food! Where to begin! Food was a large part of our experience. Not only because we have to eat to nourish our bodies but it’s also a large social aspect. Meal times in Costa Rica were a lot different than meal times in the […]
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Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Family Life
Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Family Life Living with a Host Family allowed me to be 100% fully immersed into the Costa Rican culture, including unique lifestyles, language, and the best of all making life long connections with the most welcoming family in the world. During my experience my roommate Katie Heubusch […]
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Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – City Life
Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – City Life Life in Alajuela was a great learning experience. I come from a small town with one convenient store and a small population where everybody knows everybody. So to be in a city with busy streets, lots of stores including restaurants, cafes, souvenir shops, supermarkets, fast […]