La Condesa Hotel And Villas Heredia

... business class - which basically meant first class - and we enjoyed a surprisingly comfortable flight to Costa Rica.

A man from the institute where we are going to study picked us up and drove us to our new home. Our host parents seem really cool! They work in a bakery and told us to help ourselves to any of the many desserts lying around the kitchen. Six-year-old Jose Pablo and one-year-old Alberto Jose are both very cute and ...

... know. We need to know how many people to plan for. Plus, we hope to be able to help you out by sharing what we have found out about affordable lodging and transportation. We hope to have a website ready soon with more information. We understand that for some people it is not possible to come all the way to Chicago. If you can't make it but you do want to help support ...

... out ok. On Thursday was the oral exam. I got to sit outside in the sun and ask the kids the questions. It rocked. I also got out super early because as soon as the kids were done they were allowed to go. This meant that I had enough time to catch the bus to Cartago. To my surprise when I started talking to mom on skype, she told me that Uncle John, Aunt Dana, and Sarah were on their way to the house! I got to talk to all of them. It was ...

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... was an old guy we gave a ride to on the dirt road on the way up to the tribe. When we were leaving he was walking down again so we gave him a ride. When we got home it was pretty late in the afternoon. I changed into long pants because it gets buggy. Yesterday it was mommy's birthday. We woke up had pancakes for breakfast, opened her cards that we made. I made a pop up card and daddy made a stencil card. After that we went to Playa ...

Den siste natten ved stillehavet fikk vi et vanvittig regnvaer. Med blikktak over rommet paa hotellet saa kan man trygt si at vi fikk nytte av oereproppene vi har med (takk for det Kathrine og Morten!!) Etter en regntung natt tok oss saa med buss tilbake til San Jose. Det er noe fasinerende med aa oppholde seg i en by som San Jose, selv om et moete med denne byen kan beskrives som alt annet enn idyllisk. Det er et virrvar ...

... the research in exchange for someone else putting together the slideshow, so I'm behind the curve. I'm torn about whether this is the best way to teach, though. Classrooms here don't have computers, much less sophisticated media player software. (Heck, they don't even have clocks on the walls; the teacher is always checking the time on her cell phone. Nor do they have books; exercises are written on the board and copied into their notebooks in a tedious process that takes ten ...

As promised, I have some cool stories to share about my time in the cloud forest. We stayed at a little finca (farm) owned by Carlos, whose education did not take him past second grade. However, he has developed a complete circle of sustainability to produce food for himself and many of his neighbors. It goes a little something like this: Carlos raises trout, and he keeps them in a little pond attached ...

... I stopped by Jimmy's store for about an hour and a half and I got to meet the whole family. I found out that Jimmy's wife's parents were killed about a year ago and nobody ever explained to his wife why her parents had to undergo autopsies. I explained the reasons and she seemed to feel much better at least in ...

... shaking her head. About fifteen minutes later, I was lost again. Nothing looked familiar. I found this ancient policeman locked in a cage about 10 X 20 feet with a large shed in it. I introduced myself as a visiting police officer and showed him my badge. Immediately he shouts "Walker, Texas Ranger!" I said, "That's my name, really!" And then, "Walker is not a good name to the people of Costa Rica." After apologizing profusely ...