The Costa Rica / La Fortuna experience is rapidly winding down. Tomorrow we will head off to Nicaragua, specifically San Carlos. San Carlos is located at the southern end of Lake Nicaragua and will be our jumping off point to the Carribean Coast. Our stay in Costa Rica has been a bit disappointing. Generally, Costa […]
Entries from December 2008
The Costa Rica – La Fortuna Experience
December 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: Life · Nicaragua · Travel
The funny and the not so funny
December 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Merry Christmas from La Fortuna, Costa Rica! The past week has been at times quite funny and at times quite strange and stressful. First the funny. Last week, I sent a package to Alaska that cost 572 (Nicaraguan). I completely overwhelmed the system. Using stamps, the post office lady started with the lowest dominination (0.25) […]
TED worthy
December 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This past weekend, I think I finally met a person truly worthy of giving a talk at the TED conference. Paulette Goudge is an amazing person that is really living out her ideals. In a nutshell, she originally arrived in Nicaragua in the 1980´s during the revolution. Afterward, she adopted a war child, moved back […]
Tags: Life · Nicaragua · Travel
Daily life in Nicaragua
December 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
My daily life is now settling into a fairly constant and new routine. I usually wake up between 6-6:30 and study, eat breakfast, go to class between 8-12, eat/relax for an hour, participate in the school activity in the afternoon (1:45 – 5), eat some more, study (usually in a quiet bar along the beach), […]
