Hey everyone!
I am happy to tell you that I have successfully completed my first two weeks of class. Classes in my specific program are only taught in spanish, so they are going to be tough. They are meant to be language intensive, so I'm going to have to suck it up. My professors are all very nice, and they understand that we are foreign exchange students, which requires patience on their part. My language class is in the morning, and I have class in the afternoon two days a week. This set-up is great because I have time in the afternoons to do different activities!
There are several activities my new friends and I do throughout the week. On Wednesdays we play soccer with a few of the locals at an indoor soccer facility. Also, I joined a gym that offers a great rate to foreign exchange students. I'll walk through the city some afternoons to try and snap a few pictures of things I haven't seen yet. I also plan on trying some new local restaurants with my new friend Aaron once or twice a week after class. I will talk about some of the food here in my next post, as I have only dipped my toe in the sea of delicious flavors that are Costa Rica :)
We have taken a few day trips already. We went to the Poas Volcano and Cafe Brit. First, we had a great time at Cafe Brit, a gourmet coffee producer. We learned about the planting and harvesting of the coffee beans, and the road it takes to becoming gourmet coffee. At the end of the tour, we were able to try samples of eight different gourmet coffees. We then headed to the Poas Volcano. Seeing the volcano and smelling the sulfur is something I'll never forget. You can see the crater in some of the pictures I have posted. The water is some of the most acidic in the world. There is another inactive crater which looks like a lake and is in my profile picture. We also took a day trip into San Jose, the capital city, but I will save that story for next time to keep things interesting.
Saludos!
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