{"id":2804,"date":"2016-02-01T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:27:20","slug":"so-far-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/2016\/02\/so-far-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"So Far, So Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone,<\/p>\n

Hope everything is well over in Farmingdale! Over here in Costa Rica is awesome! I just finished my first intensive Spanish course (Basic 2) and it was surprisingly tough! Today was my first day of Intermediate 2 and it went very well. Also, this month starts electives; I\u2019m taking Selected Topics in Afro-Caribbean Studies, which I\u2019m pretty excited about.<\/p>\n

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I thought I\u2019d fill you in on amazing adventures the past few weekends. 2 weekends ago, I visited a coffee plantation, went zip-lining, and visited Cataratas (the waterfalls), where I also saw many awesome animals such as tucans and monkeys. It was amazing to see the nature and biodiversity of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

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This past weekend, I went to Panama, a 5 hour drive from Costa Rica. When we got out of the bus, it was scorching hot. I\u2019m glad Costa Rica isn\u2019t as hot as Panama, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to handle it. The city that we went to was called Bocas del Toro. We took a taxi boat, about 30 minutes, to get to the city. Taxi boats are necessary here to get to beaches and bars. We stayed in a hostel which was pretty nice!<\/p>\n

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The next day, went snorkeling at Starfish Beach, and yes, we saw starfish! We learned that if you take a starfish out of the water for more than 10 seconds, it will die, so we made sure not to do that. After, we went to Isla Colon, a beautiful island. There, the water was clear and calm, there was reggae music and hammocks. The life!<\/p>\n

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The next day, we went to Red Frog Beach..there weren\u2019t red frogs though. The waves were huge but the water was so blue and beautiful. I got a major sunburn there also..but it will turn into a tan and maybe I will look more Tico (Costa Rican)!<\/p>\n

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Since all of the excursions from my package are done, now I\u2019m on my own. Luckily, there is a lot of public transportation that is cheap, so I will be sure to explore everything else Cost a Rica has to offer! And of course, I will keep up with my studying. I can see a major improvement in my Spanish language, and am so excited to continue learning.<\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/p>\n

Laura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone, Hope everything is well over in Farmingdale! Over here in Costa Rica is awesome! I just finished my first intensive Spanish course (Basic 2) and it was surprisingly tough! Today was my first day of Intermediate 2 and it went very well. Also, this month starts electives; I\u2019m taking Selected Topics in Afro-Caribbean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laura-maneri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}