Why I Created This Blog

¡Hola, Bienvenidos a todos!

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 :)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Coffee Tour

Coffee Plantation Tour


This is how they heat the huge tumblers which dry all of the coffee beans. Can you imagine how much wood that must take? How much heat that produces? Believe me, you could feel it!
Que montón de café, verdad?
This machine shakes the coffee and separates it by quality. The heavier beans are better quality and fall to the right while the lighter and lesser quality separate into the left.

A bag of coffee!! Maybe I can mail it home?
We were lucky to see a shipment (a whole truck load) of coffee berries being dumped from a truck into the measuring mechanism at the coffee plantation. That aparatus behind the worker is how they count the coffee they bring in, abacus style.  
Don Sergio is showing us how the coffee pickers wear their basket and pick the berries off the plant. Coffee pickers are among some of the cheapest labor in Costa Rica. They wake up at the crack of dawn to catch the one truck that can load them in the back to take them to work, work all day long picking berries, fill several baskets each day during many hours, and make 
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