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: 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 […]

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: 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 […]

Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Life at School

Aero: Ashley Hager – Costa Rica 2014 – Life at School From my experience with schools that I have attended in the United States I thought taking Spanish classes in Costa Rica was going to be similar. When I think of school I think of a big building with lots of classrooms, windows, and desks, […]