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 – Life at School

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School As a future teacher, I was excited to see what schools were like in Costa Rica. Our class size was very small compared to a normal U.S. class. There were only eight of us in the class which made the atmosphere very comfortable. We […]

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life Family is a very important part of my life so I was super exited to stay with a host family rather than in a hotel. At the same time I was nervous about coming into the lives of an entire family who I knew very […]

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: Alyssa Davis – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life

Aero: Alyssa Davis – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life In order to evaluate the home life of most Costa Ricans it is important to understand first that families are as wide and varied as they are in the United States. Couples seem to be as common as singles and divorcees, while newborns are just […]

Aero: Patricia Wallace – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School

Aero: Patricia Wallace – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School While walking into the classroom on the first day, I realized I had no idea what to expect.  I took out my notebook as I would have done for class back in the States.  For the most part, our Spanish class consisted of just […]

Aero: Patricia Wallace – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life

Aero: Patricia Wallace – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life Living with a host family was a very unique aspect of this trip.  I had the opportunity to live with the wonderful Mayra for sixteen days.  If you imagine the most motherly and caring woman you know, multiply that by two and you would get […]

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, […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life It was definitely an experience living with a host family.  I come from a household of six people.  There is always something going on and it is usually noisy and we are always on the go.  This is the environment that I grew up in.  […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School During our trip to Costa Rica we attended a Spanish class.  This class covered the basics of the Spanish language; different tenses and how to conjugate words, everyday vocabulary, and it emphasized the importance of repetition and speaking.  It was only our group of […]