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Day 13: San Jose
Sunday, June 22nd, our goal for the one full day we have in San Jose was to see the markets and visit two museums, the Gold Museum and...
Natalie Babic
Jun 252 min read
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Day 12: Travel to San José
Today began at 5:30am with saying one final goodbye to our host families before boarding the bus to travel to San José. On the way, we...
Natalie Babic
Jun 231 min read
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Day 11: Last Day in Providencia
As the time in Providencia de Dota came to an end, we started our final day off with a powerful discussion about water out in nature,...
Natalie Babic
Jun 233 min read
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Day 10: Finishing the Biojardinera
Today I woke up around 6:30 am, got ready and had breakfast, as usual. For breakfast I had one of the tamales being sold at bingo night....
Natalie Babic
Jun 233 min read
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Day 9: Bio JardinerÃa & Bingo
We started the morning meeting at 7:45AM in front of the bridge/store after our breakfast at 7:00AM. Today’s work was solely focused...
Natalie Babic
Jun 192 min read
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Day 8
This morning I had cereal with mini pancakes and some coffee. Soon after I headed over to the community center where we get picked up....
Natalie Babic
Jun 192 min read
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Day 7
Today was our seventh day in Costa Rica. We met at 5:30 today by the corner store to go on a guided hike in the Quetzal National Forest...
Natalie Babic
Jun 193 min read
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Day 6
I woke up early with the same sore feeling on my lower back. I stretched out to ease it away. On a sunny morning, Omar and I walked to...
Natalie Babic
Jun 162 min read
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Day 5: Pura Vida
We started off the day by having gallo pinto for breakfast. We went to Providencia’s first organic coffee plantation. David taught us...
Natalie Babic
Jun 153 min read
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Day 4
Friday, June 13th, it was raining when we woke up this morning. I was worried that the weather would hamper our progress at the bio swale...
Natalie Babic
Jun 152 min read
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Day 3: Trench Work
Today was our first full day of work, for both the biofabrica as well as the biogardinera (bioswale). At the biofabrica we first had to...
Natalie Babic
Jun 152 min read
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Day 2: Plans for Construction
We started our day at 7am with a breakfast that Juan and Joanna once again prepared for us. It consisted of coffee, starfruit juice,...
Natalie Babic
Jun 122 min read
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Day 1: Beginning the Journey
Hello! Today we began our venture to Costa Rica. We flew into San Jose, Costa Rica from San Francisco Airport around 7 AM this morning....
Natalie Babic
Jun 102 min read
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