1. My Adventure In Costa Rica

2. Ricardo Castro Beer This is the school that we started attending our second day in Costa Rica. School in Costa Rica is very different.

3. The Differences School in the USA Students are required to be on campus, and in class every day. Classes are disruptive Students can be punished Bathrooms are equipped with toilet seats, soap, toilet paper and paper towels, and in most cases seat coverings. Food is normally prepackaged, and heated up School in Costa Rica Students are required to be on campus, but not required to go to class. Classes are very disruptive No disciplinary actions can be taken Bathrooms have a toilet with out a toilet seat, soap, toilet paper, and paper towels. Food is homemade

4. Typical Food Breakfast : Gallo Pinto (beans and rice mix together served with an egg) Lunch : beans and rice, salad, fried plantain and meat Dinner: beans and rice salad, and meat Other dishes; Olla de carne (pot of beef)- is a stew with yucca, beef, and potato Plantains- are in the same family as a banana Ceviche- is fish that is cooked not by heat, but by the acids in lemon and lime juice. Often served with cilantro. Arroz con pollo (rice with chicken)- is a dish that is mainly served at parties.

5. Fruit Orotina is a city of fruit. Pahybahe- is a fruit that looks like a lime on the outside, looks like a sweet potato on the inside, and tastes like an artichoke. (I had a allergic reaction) Mango Verde- is a green mango, that they eat with salt. Mammon- are a red spiny fruit that when you open has a clear center with a seed. It tastes like a grape.

6. My host family my family consists of Five people Prisci 19, Faby 15, Naty 9, Lizbeth and Dago. We lived next to the elementary school in Hacienda Veija, Orotina. My host father Dago spoke very good English because he attended Kansas university, in Coffeyville Kansas.

7. Priscilla, Dagoberto, Fabiola, Lizbeth, Nataly The rojas chinchilla family Priscilla, Dagoberto, Fabiola, Lizbeth, Nataly

8. Faby, Naty, and I playing go fish on the porch

9. My wonderful little sister Naty

10. Faby, Naty, and Prisci, my sisters

11. This is a birthday party that was held my first night for my aunt….the power was out..and it was raining!

12. Fabiola, helping my sister Naty learn to play her instrument for school

13. My sister Naty and I. I was teaching her to swim

14. Statue at the park in Orotina

15. The captain of our boat got out to feed this wild guy….. Yikes!!!!

17. Mangrove trees on the river

18. This river is brackish, which means its part salt and fresh water. The river flows right into the pacific ocean.

19. National bird, Turdus grayi or yiguirro This was found hiding on the porch.

20. Me, before I went on the zipline

21. Iguanas, these you can see all over Costa Rica. I had them on my roof.

22. The catholic church across from the park

23. Capuchin monkeys on the beach Manuel Antonio

24. Manuel Antonio beach

25. Ferryman that carried us across the tide to the shore

26. colones

27. One of the dogs that was at the high school

30. Alligator that the kids took care of in their agricultural class

31. Kids that joined my friends and I in a game of cards during school

35. Poas volcano, very cold, very stinky (I had asthma attack here)

36. Ox, and oxcart

37. California Delegates Carson Wignal, Cat Corle, Aimee Adamson, Kate Richards, Tristan Knothe

38. My Moms 40 th birthday party