Orientation: extensive and unstructured.

The group of ISEP students and I had a walking tour of San Jose (the capitol of CR) yesterday. You would think that in a city as big, busy, and potentially dangerous as this that our leader would have had a little more of a plan to her tour, but instead we walked and walked and walked and WALKED!!! We visited a museum, but by the time we got there I was too tired to really enjoy anything so I just sat down, listened to the calming fountain, and tried to forget about the blister on my heel. Afterwards we crossed the street and had lunch at a gringo (foreigner) hotel which was really nice. So it rains a lot here. Now I don`t mean that some days it is rainy and other days it`s dry. When it rains it quite literally pours! Mother nature is nice enough to give a gringa, like myself, a few warning clouds and drops before it dumps. I... [read full story]