{"id":2825,"date":"2016-02-01T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:37:13","slug":"a-typical-day-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/2016\/02\/a-typical-day-in-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"A Typical day in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It may seem that I\u2019m not actually studying here in Costa Rica based off of my blogs, so I thought I should describe my daily life here in San Jose.<\/p>\n

I wake up every day at 6:30 am. Que torta! (How awful!) I eat breakfast with my housemate and Tica mom at 7:30 and walk to school which takes about 5 minutes. Spanish class is 8-12, but I like my schedule because then I have the whole day free..to study. I am dedicating much more time than I had thought to my studies here. Even if I don\u2019t have a test, it\u2019s important to keep up with practicing because it\u2019s very easy to forget certain things. These intensive courses aren\u2019t a joke!<\/p>\n

After class, I get lunch from local restaurants or bakeries nearby (lunch isn\u2019t included at the host houses). The food is delicious in Costa Rica. A typical meal is Casado-choice of chicken or fish, with plantains, rice and beans, and salad. Yum! Rice and beans are served with basically every meal. My meals won\u2019t feel complete without it when I return to the U.S.! Dinner is included, so we eat at 7pm.<\/p>\n

Another thing is that I had to learn to use a different form of money- Costa Rican Colones. At first it was very confusing saying \u201c1million Colones.\u201d 1 Costa Rican Colone is equal to 0.0019 U.S. Dollars. The money is so pretty too! Also, here, I am 2 hours behind the United States, so when I arrived, I went to sleep so early!<\/p>\n

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It rains almost every day here since it\u2019s the rainy season, but not for the whole day! So, it\u2019s vital to bring a rainjacket or umbrella with me to class every day, because you never know if it will rain!<\/p>\n

A downfall of the cabs here are that they rip off the gringos (white people) by taking longer routes to get to the destination. Also, it\u2019s really hard to explain directions here because there are not normal addresses. For example, my house is located 200 meters south of Auto Bohios. Phew!<\/p>\n

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There are also many cultural customs here. \u201cTico Time\u201d means that being late is being about 20 minutes late. So, if people make a date, it is normal to arrive 10 minutes late. So laid back! I like it because my professors are always about 10 minutes late to class! \u201cPura Vida\u201d is what all of the Ticos say. It means Pure Life, how calming! Another word is \u201ctuanis\u201d meaning too nice.<\/p>\n

Public transportation is very popular here. There are cabs everywhere just like New York City. I sure am not too much of a city person, so on the weekends, I explore the rest of Costa Rica by taking public buses which are about 5mil Colones for one direction. They\u2019re so easy and pretty cheap to take! There are also so many hostels here in Costa Rica for a very low price, so that is usually my choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may seem that I\u2019m not actually studying here in Costa Rica based off of my blogs, so I thought I should describe my daily life here in San Jose. I wake up every day at 6:30 am. Que torta! (How awful!) I eat breakfast with my housemate and Tica mom at 7:30 and walk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","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\/2825"}],"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=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}