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San Ramon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Ramon, Costa Rica
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San Ramon:Hammocks, hot springs and cattle auction
This is a top pick! June 3: Chale's mom, Judy, picks us up and we head to San Ramon....about 2 hours from San Jose. So, after settling in, Chale and I head in to town for some bocas(it literally translates as mouth, but ticos use the term to describe appetizers). Here is ...
gotta go to work gotta get a job
... have one! However, I don't think it's anything my father ever had in mind for me. I'm current working 8-5:30 here in Costa Rica at the uVolunteers main office. I'm the new enrollment officer/ travel advisor / costumer service! I'm still coming home ...
The first few days
Well, we are here in San Ramón, Costa Rica. We arrived on Tuesday and spent the week working on a house and getting to know the other volunteers, who are all really nice. There are some from the US, England, and Canada. There is also a group from Ohio ...
Getting it done with Guaro
... , so you might say i have a bit of a hangy o, which has been a bit of a theme these last two weeks. im in costa rica doing my second volunteering projecto by building houses, which has been awesome, except that about fifty percent of the mornings i am ...
tome chichi
... right now so i dont know how much i can say online. pura vida oh! I almost forget to mention that I went to a Costa Rica vs Trinidad futbol match in San jose. It was amazing. be jealous mr Fox. There's a picture of us eating tico food. obviously. im ...
el fin de semana
... in the mix because someone had left the lid open. So disgusting. however, that's like the only bad thing about living in costa rica. So then Dona Isabel and her husband invited me to take the day with them and visit a neighboring town called Zarcero. I ...
Muscle development update
I seem to be constantly extremely behind with my blog and the days are all blurring into one, so I am going to take action and get you up to speed... Another week of construction and evening classes went by relatively problem-free. I am starting to ache ...
Another Update
... . I flew home early last week to attend the memorial service for my grandfather who passed away on the past Saturday. I arrived back in San Ramón this weekend and am now working in the office. Because I have been at home this has been a pretty uneventful ...
First Update
... was really good. Right now I'm trying to decide what the rest of my week is going to look like. There's a couple volunteers returning to San Ramón today from a trip over New Years and hopefully they will want to travel to a beach for part of the week, as ...
Final update
Well, I guess this will be my final update as I head home on Sunday afternoon so that I can start classes bright and early Monday morning. I have officially finished with my work in the Habitát office, at least for the time being. Everything went really ...
inyector
oh my goodness. yesterday i was pretty sick so i went to the hospital. I got a shot in my butt, IVs in my arms, and saw someone die. Crazy! a few people left the house this past weekend and a few new people came! I like the switch. everyone gets ...
San Ramon- A Surprise Stop
... bites and told to elevate her leg while she rested to cure the infection; we all expect her to have a full recovery. We left San Ramon thinking it was good that we stopped to have the bites checked. It could have turned into something worse. We stopped ...
The last week
... that about a week after I get there I'm gonna wish I was back here...Oh well, life goes on. We had 16 new volunteers come into San Ramon today, so things are kind of crazy around here. I don't know too much that is new, but just wanted to add something in ...
Update
... him coordinate where the volunteers will be staying and working. It definately gives me an inside look into the volunteer aspect of Habitat Costa Rica. Since being in the office, my Spanish in improving much more and I am able to speak to some of the ...
Week 2 of building
... 18% interest on the loan (which apparently is cheaper than the banks). It did rather feel though that my efforts in Costa Rica benefited the homestay families most through the B&B money they got, than necessarily the particular family whose house I was ...
Moved Again...
... volunteer coordinator, a nice enough guy named Ted. It is a cute house up on the hill with a great view of the city of San Ramon, although every day since I moved it has been nothing but rain. It´s pretty cool, though, since the little town is tucked ...
No speak Americano
... 8217;ve been kept busy this week, and it feels good to be finally doing things and getting to see the side of Costa Rica that I’d been looking forward to. After saying a fond farewell to my fantastic Spanish teachers, I embarked on an uncomfortable ...
Day 10
sorry forgot to post engineer gave us all good on foundations we have layed foundations and started laying bricks. we finished early again today becouse of rain. apart from that not much else happenig hear today just hanging around Veńa Verde waiting ...
day 1
... flights it took us 11 hours to get to Atlanta and then we spent 4 hours in Atlanta and then it took another 4 hours flying to get Costa Rica. We then took one last bus to ville verde and when we arived we got all set up and got hot dogs and pineapple ...
Arrival
... check some things. We have rented some movies to watch tonight with some friends. It looks like we will be staying in San Ramón for New Year's because there is a big celebration being organized by Will and Milena and some others so everyone is going ...
verdad
... but my dad and brother are going to meet all of the other volunteers, eat a tico breakfast with us, see the orphanage, stay in san ramon! then im taking them to monteverde to go zip lining and other sorts of fun stuff. it's up in the cloud ...
Another Update
Hello again from Costa Rica! I'm sitting in the office biding my time until we leave for the beach this weekend. This weekend is Playa Samara on the Pacific coast of the Nicoyan Penninsula. 15 of us have rented a mini-bus and a house for the weekend. ...
Café Delicias
I'm officially going to gain 10 pounds from coming to this cafe for wi-fi, like 4 times a week. I always get cafe con leche and a cinnamon roll. I don't have personal strength to hold back. they're so good. It also takes a lot of daily effort to not ...
con mucho gusto
I'm finally in San Ramon, Costa Rica. My volunteer location. I'm staying in a dorm (two story house basically) with three other girls and a boy. I think there are more coming in two weeks. San Ramon is a cute city with everything you need. There's a ...
Day 7
today was like all the rest except it started raining around 1 and we went back to Ville Verde. On special request from Charlotte she saw lightning. To make this blog a little longer here are some quotes from people over here, "the will never play ...
Day 8
Today we went on the conope tour which was brilliant a couple of people were a little nervous but everyone did it teachers included. It was 11 different zips across a jungle we were all a little disappointed when we found out the superman zip wasn't ...
Day 9
We went down to a outdoor swimming pool today and swam under a natural waterfall was very good then we went back to ville Verde. Were just taking it easy for the rest of ...
Day 13
We spent most of today brick laying until we ran out of bricks then we were digging waiting on more to come until we just gave up waiting and went back to Vińa Verde which tonight is our last night here were going to a different hostel closer to the ...
Yet another update
... . There are a couple other volunteers joining us for this trip so there will be about 10 of us traveling together. We will return to San Ramón on Sunday in time to watch the NFL playoff games (goodluck Panthers!!!), and then back to work on Monday. Hope ...
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