Aero: Marriah Gough – Costa Rica 2015 – Travel

Aero: Marriah Gough – Costa Rica 2015 – Travel … … Holy Crap I made the biggest choice of my life by choosing to study abroad for two weeks over Christmas break in Costa Rica. The information that I was receiving from classmates who previously attended the trip was hooking me, and dragging me in. The only […]

Aero: Mary Erb – Costa Rica 2015 – Travel

Aero: Mary Erb – Costa Rica 2015 – Travel … … All of my prior travelling experiences to this trip have been within the U.S. , and I was excited to finally become an international traveler. I was prepared and maybe even a little excited to undertake all of the different things that come with […]

Aero: Mary Erb – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Mary Erb – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … Something I (maybe) oddly looked forward to before the trip was staying with a host family. I can’t really say why the thought of it appealed to me, but it might have had a lot to do with the change of living […]

Aero: Marriah Gough – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Marriah Gough – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … Traveling to Costa Rica and being away from my family for two weeks was the biggest thing I have done on my own. The farthest away from them I have been for that length of time was at college, and that is […]

Aero: Tiffany Bean – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Tiffany Bean – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … I have ever traveled out of the country I would typically stay in a hotel so this was my first time ever staying with a host family. When I imaged their home I expected it to similar to a shack. I also […]

Aero: Kevin Urbaitis – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Kevin Urbaitis – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … My host family was one of my favorite parts about the whole entire trip to Costa Rica. From greeting them at the airport for the first time till hugging them goodbye outside the airport for the last time, they were the most […]

Aero: Autumn Clearwater-Day – Costa Rica 2015 – Food and Dining

Aero: Autumn Clearwater-Day – Costa Rica 2015 – Food and Dining … … The first day in Alajuela my host mother made tortillas with cheese and bologna. While in Costa Rica I had plenty of tortillas, rice and empanadas. The usual meal with my host family was empanadas (tortilla with beans), white rice and chocolate, […]

Aero: Annie Livingston – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home

Aero: Annie Livingston – Costa Rica 2015 – Life at Home … … My host family, Mayra, her son Pablo, and Pablo’s daughter Maria Paula picked the four of us who would be staying with her up directly  from the airport and brought us to their house. It had been a long and tiring day […]

Aero: Mary Erb – Costa Rica 2015 – My Expectations

Aero: Mary Erb – Costa Rica 2015 – My Expectations While Considering what my expectations are for Costa Rica, it dawned on me that the very word “expectations” implies that I already have decided ideas and even preconceived notions of what the country is like, when really I have a relatively small imagining of what […]

Aero: Tiffany Bean – Costa Rica 2015 – My Expectations

Aero: Tiffany Bean – Costa Rica 2015 – My Expectations On January second we will be flying to Costa Rica.  This is my first time going to Costa Rica and the first time I am traveling to a foreign that without my parents with me.  I have also never needed to communicate to people that […]