Block 1 Summary

San José: This block was a lot of fun because it was just 25 American students hanging out in San José. Every day of the week we had 4 hours of Spanish in the morning followed by 4 hours of a Latin American development class in the afternoon.

Our School in San Pedro, San José

The days were long but we had a lot of fun on the weekends--we took a trip to Manuel Antonio.

Block 1 was interrupted for a week while the whole group packed up and went to Nicaragua. We had a lot of fun visiting organic coffee farms, women's associations, and exploring Nicaraguan cities such as Managua, Matagalpa, and Granada. We lived with host families in San Ramón and Matagalpa. Check out the video I made about our experiences there:

We had a lot of fun but after we got back, it was bittersweet. We were really two groups and the time had come to split: the field program people had to leave for the field projects of Block 2 and the internship students had decided on internships across Costa Rica and Nicaragua and had to leave for 2 months.