Update on our program

Sorry to be slow with the uploads of information and pictures. My internet at both CRLA and at my homestay has been spotty at best so I’ve taken pictures but not tried to upload them lest I stay glued to my computer watching the upload bar tic up only to wait over an hour and never successfully upload a picture. Apparently internet is much better at La Selva and I am taking advantage of it!

The weeks have flown by super fast. Our spanish class took a field trip to the central mercado where we saw all manner of interesting Costa Rican delights and nary a tourist in site (except for us, of course). While we were walking, we encountered a rather large female statute that is supposed to give you good luck if you rub her butt, so Bob Malkin obliged as seen above! There we discovered a whole number of new fruits, some delicious, others not so much, but interesting and fun to try to new things! We found an ice cream/sorbet shop that had one flavor that has apparently been around for over 120 years! The flavor they picked that apparently could not be beat was a horchata type flavor. We saw chickens, ducks, birds, dogs all for sale. We saw a whole lot of different herbs that could cure you of any ailment. Here are the students and professor Malkin in the shop with all the herbs.

In addition to visiting the central mercado, we also stopped by the teatro and walked around China town, which really is just 1 shop where students bought ‘China tacos’ which were really just egg rolls that took about 20 minutes to cook.

We’ve been busy, but we have regular breaks and our students always take advantage of every break they get. Here are some shots of students hanging out in their free time during spanish break and class break where they usually take a moment to grab an empanada, some coffee or tea, and chat with friends in the lush paradise of the CRLA garden.

We’ve made great friends here in Costa Rica so far, as this picture of my daughter and her good friend, my homestay mother (Maybell Solis’) daughter. Friends forever!

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