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I am in my fourth year of school majoring in Education and Spanish. I'm from Minnesota and am about to embark on a life changing experience, immersing myself in the language, culture, and pura vida of Costa Rica!

My ultimate goal of going to Costa Rica is to become fluent in speaking Spanish. But along the way, I am going to be visiting a very close friend from high school, experiencing Costa Rican Independence Day and Christmas, traveling to three countries and living on the beach. Oh, and I am taking classes in a university in the capital city, but it goes without debate, most of my learning will be experienced when I am not in a classroom but around the friendly Ticos (name Costa Rican's call themselves) and being out on adventures.

If you're reading this, I miss you, so do your best to let me know what you're up to! And I'll do my best filling you in on my adventures :)

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Surprise Field Trip, Wine Included!

Reasons Why I Love My Art Professor
  • Our homework is due in "Oh it doesn't matter, how about December?"

  • "So what do you guys want to do today, watch a movie?" Yes, yes of course we do! "Ok, I'll go to the library"

  • "We have a surprise field trip today!"

  • He shows up to class 10 minutes late because he has to get his tea in the cafeteria first. We talk for the first 15-20 minutes, we never finish on time because he never looks at the clock or watch (which yes, when you are doing art is a good thing!) This mentality of Costa Rica I really appreciate!

  • We do art projects every day in all different mediums- collage, drawing, painting, clay, paper.

  • We use Google Earth everyday and just 'travel' around the world.

  • What do you guys want to do tonight? Do you want to go to Los Pros and draw a scene there? (Los Pros is a local bar that we have been telling him about, we mainly tell him about it to see if he will actually take us there. He talks about it as if we will go someday, but have yet to go! Maybe tonight we will!) 

  • He is learning French and is a native Spanish speaker. So we are able to have trilingual conversations. 


Night at the Museum

1) First Stop? UCR San Pedro
On our surprise field trip last week, our professor drove us first to UCR the local university in San Pedro to the art school to walk through their art gallery. I really enjoyed driving through campus to experience the environment of Costa Rica's public school (it's also ranked 3rd in the world! Although I have to find the source so I know who ranked it). Our professor also teaches there so he had a special access card to get us into the campus and able to see everything. I wish I would've taken pictures because it felt like a college town, only it was in the jungle. It is a really big school with 30,000 students. It had a medical school, art school, business, education, and more. 

2) Second Stop? El Museo Nacional
The following pictures are at our second stop of our field trip: El Museo Nacional in San José. We are walking through downtown San José to the museum which is offering an opening night of an art exhibition to one of our professor's artist friends. We knew nothing about it, only that we love field trips! When we got there, we learned the exhibit was entitled "Reinas de la noche"which approached the topic of prostitution. 




Above and below are pictures of the entrance into the museum.

Above in the striped shirt is the artist welcoming us to his exhibit.



Wine during class? Yes please. We felt so sophisticated.



^ Our professor knows everybody and really loves to talk. This was just one of many people he ran into at the museum. Our class ends, according to the schedule, at 8:00 PM and Cale and I were supposed to go with our program to rollerskating at 8:00. But we were still at the museum. We left at around 8:30 and our professor drove us to the skating rink. How nice of him!

^Our class of four students with our professor- the one in plaid pants!

^ Here's a picture with us with another artist we met, who of course, knew our professor.
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