Hotel Martino Alajuela
In front of Zoo Ave, La Garita de Alajuela Alajuela, Province of Alajuela, Costa Rica
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Day 3... 7/11/11
... my umbrella because it rained all day. It was only like 60 degrees today and it felt wonderful!
Abi and I thought that we were going to have orientation all day. But instead they threw us right into the middle of the intermediate spanish class. There are 2 types of class: intermediate and basic. We started off with grammar and learning the difference between the past and imperfect tenses. It was a great review. We studied for about 3 hours and got a break in between. We ended ...
Week 10
... Peru is full of amazing typical handcrafts. Everyone bought at least something. I got a nice sweater and Jimena bought funky socks, 2 earings, a purse, a sweater, a hat and maybe something else she didn’t show ...
Back to San Jose
After breakfast we took a short walk around the grounds, so sad to leave this idyllic setting but more discoveries lie ahead. As we boarded the boat I struck up a conversation with a young man I learned was from Pittsburgh and we chatted about travel. He was traveling on his own for a couple of weeks, flying between the parks. Another couple was from Switzerland and a gentleman from France made up the passengers on ...
Fun in the city 2 days before Christmas
... br>
we went walking to find a shoe store and saw all the bustling of last minute christmas shoppers. it was kind of like shopping in down town seattle, minus the fancy lighting and the commercialism. the main difference was the loud music blaring from store to store to try and get people's attention and business i suppose.
the greatest thing was, we happened upon a show in the ...
Pura Vida!
... Be Missed
- The fruit, especially the pineapple
- Zip lines
- My "grandpas" at the senior center
- Gorgeous sugar cane fields
- Raffa, our driver, who may just be one of the coolest people I have ever met
- The smell of the bakery next door
- Table salsa: the real stuff here
- Fireworks night ("No drinking in the house, but no one said anything about fireworks.")
- I would have loved to have seen that volcano blow (from ...



