CTSCostaRica2024

Hello! My name is Cassidy DiRemigio and I would love to tell you a little bit about a day in the life in this beautiful Central American beach town. Our amazing trip is now coming to an end but we are not sad that it's ending, but happy that it has happened.  Today we had an eventful day, starting off by heading over to surfing lessons where Danny and his crew threw us into the picture perfect ocean and tried to help us catch some waves! I did struggle to stay on the board but it was a great experience and I learned a lot (and a couple of us nearly died).  The group was delightfully surprised when we were greeted with pizzas stacked high, waiting to be eaten for lunch. We also had the opportunity to go to a local ice cream shop were I enjoyed some homemade walnut and caramel ice cream! Back at out hotel we all jumped into the pool to play many rounds of Marco polo where Alex entertained the teachers by swimming aggressively towards his victims. Towards the end of the day every...

heyyy guysss i know its a late report but i guess we'll talk about day 7 so basically on this day we woke up had a amazing breakfast like always at Finca la Anita then we headed to the bus to get to the lab.  Today was a day of full science, with our final presentations happening tomorrow. Most people had some stuff to get done so we were all busy doing our work like finishing the trial or working on our presentation slides, we all had something to do!! We left for lunch and again it was soooo good, had some time to rest after which is always nice, (we like to take naps a lot). Then we headed back to the lab and got to work again! We had dinner, then MORE lab time. We had to stay extra late because everyone still had work to do, but it ended off being worth it because we all had such fun (i think??). But anyway me personally, i was happy to get it over and done even though it was fun!! sending lots of love to all!!! -Brooke b and Dorothy

Today, we presented our final presentations after our days of testing and refining. The presentations went well for everyone and everyone's experiments were quite intriguing to see. We are proud of everyone's hard work throughout the trip, even if some of the experiments didn't work how they were expected to. Everyone's hard work was clearly visible through their presentations and the amount of information they knew about their topic.  After these presentations, we had the most time to ourselves that we had had yet. It was a huge change and well deserved rest from all of our researching efforts.  We capped off our night and stay at Finca La Anita with a cooking class in the village at Aricelli's Cafe Campesito (https://www.facebook.com/CafeCampesinoCL/) that we all felt was a good ending to the trip throughout our connections with the people and our fun celebrations. Making tortillas ^^ Much Love

Hi parents, this is day 6 and we did some really cool stuff. We woke up this morning, had some really nice breakfast, and headed to the activities. We split into two groups. While one group was doing the community tour, the other group went for the horseback riding.  We got maps for the community tour that would guide us to different parts of the village and do our tasks of getting cheese and eggs. The horseback riding was fun. Pablo taught us how to ride horses and we went up and down a hill. It was reeeeeeally cool. We got to see an amazing view and took a picture together on the horses. Then we had some ice cream and headed for lunch. After that, we did some really hard work with our groups in the lab and made a lot of progress. We had dinner afterwards and headed to our cabin after this long and wonderful day.  Good night parents By the Texans and the adapted Texan

Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay of blog posts, some of us have been feeling under the weather so we've been getting lots of rest😙. On day five we had another amazing hike through the rainforest where we got to swim at the bottom of a waterfall! Afterwards, Pablo surprised us with popsicles from the local megasuper that we ate on the ride back to Finca la Anita. We spent the rest of the day conducting preliminary experiments and carrying out our devious science plans back at the lab. Sending lots of love from Costa Rica!🩷🩷🩷

Hey guys, today in the morning we saw the mariposas from the ladies in the village. They were supposed to have some blue butterflies by they had all died because it was too hot.  Then we got to look around the town. There's a little convenience store that we got some snacks from. Then we went to the lab and started on our scientific propositions. After that, we went to get lunch and then went back to the lab for more scientific propositions.  We were at the lab for all of the afternoon making sure that our propositions were good. We got dinner and then went back to lab to present our proposals and it rained really hard and was very loud.  There were SO MANY bugs at the lab, we saw a queen bullet ant. Now, we are back typing our blog................ Thanks for reading, we miss you and the internet. Bye!      Dorothy & Luke T