Six years of Spanish classes, visits to Spain and Mexico, and perfecting my paella recipe did not prepare me for conversational life in Costa Rica. Nearly a year ago when I landed on the CRROBS base I was lucky that I could even utter hola with the proper pronunciation instead of greeting someone with the […]
It may be hard to believe that it’s possible to find our CRROBS base on Google Earth, given that we are in the middle of the rain forest covered by trees, but we did it. This is proof to the world that we do, in fact, exist. For those of you who have not been […]
Many of us did a “homestay” at a “Mestizo” village. But most of us did not know what that meant until we got there. Now we understand that a “homestay” is staying with a local family to better learn the local lifestyle. And “Mestizo” is a term for a culture of people in Latin America […]