Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Biodiversity

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Biodiversity In Costa Rica we had the opportunity to travel around a bit and see the different climates and animal life.  In Rochester we get all four seasons; summer, winter, spring, and fall.  In Costa Rica we learned that they have basically two seasons, the dry and […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Food and Dining

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Food and Dining The food in Costa Rica is different from anything I would normally eat at home on a regular basis.  Rice and beans.  There was always rice and beans.  I’ll be honest and say that it is not my favorite thing to eat but rice […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – City Life Oh, the city life in Costa Rica.  The first thing I noticed in Costa Rica were the buildings along the streets.  Almost every house and store had bared entrances with locks, and most had barbed wire along any fencing they had.  In my home town, […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life It was definitely an experience living with a host family.  I come from a household of six people.  There is always something going on and it is usually noisy and we are always on the go.  This is the environment that I grew up in.  […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School During our trip to Costa Rica we attended a Spanish class.  This class covered the basics of the Spanish language; different tenses and how to conjugate words, everyday vocabulary, and it emphasized the importance of repetition and speaking.  It was only our group of […]

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – My Expectations

Aero: Stephanie Strassner – Costa Rica 2013 – My Expectations This January I am going to Costa Rica to fulfill my Spanish field period. When I came across this opportunity to study abroad, versus observing in another classroom, I jumped at it immediately. Not that I would not learn from an experience in a Spanish […]