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 […]
Terra: Alajuela, Costa Rica
I can’t think of a single, monolithic reason to visit Alajuela, yet every time I visit I find something worth the effort. … … Alajuela, like so many other Costa Rican cities, resides as an extension of San José, another arm of the urbanization of the Central Valley. In fact, by flying into Juan Santamaría […]
Spanish Reading Selections: Mexico City Bus Systems
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Aero: Kyle Hubble – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Kyle Hubble – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life After a long day of travel, including two lengthy flights and a five-hour lay over, I was looking forward to getting settled in my temporary home of Alajuela. My first encounter with the city was late at night driving with my host family through the […]
Aero: Alyssa Davis – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Alyssa Davis – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life City life in Alajuela is quite vibrant during the day, with little more than a few bars and restaurants remaining open past 7pm. While the sun is out, so go the Ticos. Walking is feasible most anywhere in the city and though there is plenty […]
Aero: Meghan Kelly – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Meghan Kelly – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life City life in Alajuela, Costa Rica was much different than what we sometimes see around the cities in the US. Coming from a very small town I am not used to having a central park where everyone gathers or seeing many people walking down the […]
Aero: Katherine Kostuk – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Katherine Kostuk – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life I’m not even sure where to start, there is so much that can be said on the city life in Costa Rica. One of the very first things I noticed, and was warned about, was the driving. The driving laws in Costa Rica appear to […]
Aero: Patricia Wallace – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Patricia Wallace – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life Looking back I still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that there were no street names in Alajuela. In addition, that means there are no addresses like there are in the U.S. Directions are given by well-known landmarks and the numbers […]
Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life Living in a foreign country was quite different for many reasons. Costa Rica is such a different setting compared to western New York which was awesome to experience in January! I live in a rural setting in New York so the biggest change was living […]
Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life
Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life Oh, the city life in Costa Rica. The first thing I noticed in Costa Rica were the buildings along the streets. Almost every house and store had bared entrances with locks, and most had barbed wire along any fencing they had. In my home town, […]
