Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – Food and Dining

Aero: Brittany Gleason – Costa Rica 2014 – Food and Dining Every meal I ate in Costa Rica had large portion sizes.  I wasn’t sure if it was because we are Americans they thought we ate a lot or if that’s just how the natives eat there.  I noticed that even though the portion sizes […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Aero: Meagan Hilsdorf – Costa Rica 2014 – My Expectations

Aero: Meagan Hilsdorf – Costa Rica 2014 – My Expectations When I think of Costa Rica I imagine beautiful tropical rainforests with exotic plants and animals, warm sandy beaches, coffee and hearing Spanish everywhere you turn and lots of friendly faces. This is why when I first heard of FLCC’s Spanish study abroad program it […]

Project Resources: How To Utilize The FLCC Writing Center

… There are a wide variety of student support services available at Finger Lakes Community College. You paid for them, therefore you should use them as much as possible! … The Writing Center (The Write Place): The FLCC Writing Center (The Write Place) is a branch of the FLCC Academic Support Center which supports peer […]

Spanish Reading Selections: FLCC Study Abroad Mini-Gallery

… A word about reading texts in their original language: This is freaking hard! Yup. Languages can be complicated! Can’t I just use Google translate on this stuff and read it in English? I guess you could… Then why should I read this? Because reading texts like this can accelerate your language learning. So, what […]