My Adventure

In Costa Rica

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

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

Typical FoodBreakfast : Gallo Pinto (beans and rice mix together served with an egg)Lunch : beans and rice, salad, fried plantain and meatDinner: beans and rice salad, and meatOther dishes;Olla de carne (pot of beef)- is a stew with yucca, beef, and potatoPlantains- are in the same family as a bananaCeviche- 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.

FruitOrotina 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.

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.

Priscilla, Dagoberto, Fabiola, Lizbeth, Nataly

The rojas chinchilla family

Priscilla, Dagoberto, Fabiola, Lizbeth, Nataly

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

My wonderful little sister Naty

Faby, Naty, and Prisci, my sisters

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

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

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

Statue at the park in Orotina

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

Mangrove trees on the river

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

National bird, Turdus grayi or yiguirroThis was found hiding on the porch.

Me, before I went on the zipline

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

The catholic church across from the park

Capuchin monkeys on the beach Manuel Antonio

Manuel Antonio beach

Ferryman that carried us across the tide to the shore

colones

One of the dogs that was at the high school

Alligator that the kids took care of in their agricultural class

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

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

Ox, and oxcart

California Delegates

Carson Wignal, Cat Corle, Aimee Adamson, Kate Richards, Tristan Knothe

My Moms 40th birthday party