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One Week Left
By Amanda Cormier, 5/17/2013 - Amanda Abroad
I only have about 1 week left in this beautiful country.  I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by and as much as I love it here and don't want to leave I am ready to go home and see everyone I love and eat something other than rice and beans.  (I do plan on eating more rice and…
The Farm and the End
By maggiemckeon, 5/8/2013 - Costa Rica Adventures
Horseback riding on the farm with Crecir the horse. The steep, rolling hills of cattle pastures were breathtaking! On my last week one morning, I woke up at 4:30 in order to help with the cows. My job was to scoop food into their troughs before Luis (on the right side of the picture) herded them…
Happy Mother's Day!
By Amanda Cormier, 5/12/2013 - Amanda Abroad
I'm sending you some flowers from the Irazú Volcano to brighten your day.  I love you!
The Pacific Coast
By Amanda Cormier, 5/11/2013 - Amanda Abroad
On Thursday I went to the Gold Museum, which is built under an open plaza area. It is very cool, the building is an inverted pyramid.  Inside the museum they have exhibits on the Costa Rican money, indigenous traditions around gold and their cultural life.  I learned a lot about Costa Rican…
Trip to Cartago: Volcano and Basilica
By Amanda Cormier, 5/9/2013 - Amanda Abroad
On Tuesday we went on a trip to Cartago which is a providence to the east.  We saw the Irazú volcano which was beautiful and then went to a Basilica which was incredible as well.  In August over 2,000 people walk to this basilica.  To put this perspective Costa Rica has a population of 4,000…

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David Bickford The ACM Costa Rica field experience was the first point in my development as a tropical field biologist. I first fell in love with the tremendous biological diversity and density of cool critters in the tropical rainforest in Costa Rica during my field project working in the la Reserva Forestal de Rio Macho. Being able to do an independent project in the playground of the tropical forest was perhaps the most exciting time for me as a scientist and a person. Costa Rica offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about biology in the field and the great synergy of the immersion programs of language and culture is what makes this program really stand out.

—David Bickford, Costa Rica, Spring 1990

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