- 2 afternoons spent picking up over 50 large bags of trash on two local beaches and then sorting and recycling most of what we picked up
- 2 afternoons working with a local environmental activist helping him market his Green Alliance by painting a wall next to the beach and recycled wooden signs with green slogans to be posted throughout the community
- 1 afternoon learning about sea turtle rescue from a local man who had dedicated his life to saving these amazing creatures
- 5 mornings working with over 60 local children at a camp run by two ex-pats. we played team building exercises, games, sand castle building, swimming, and surfing. (the students loved this most of all)
- took hikes through rain forests with professional guides teaching us about Costa Rica's ecosystem and economy
- lived with local families where students learned how Ticos lived day to day, and these students began to think about how one does not need so much to be happy
- learned Spanish, whether they took Spanish class or not
- Met an award winning Chilean/Costa Rican writer, Tatiana Lobo
- interacted and befriended people from all over the globe
- My English 1C students read and wrote about service learning, ecotourism, Costa Rican/travel literature.
This has been the most fruitful study abroad program I have ever been a part of.
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