 | San Jose
2009-07-30, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: rossnkaren | | Do you know the way to San Jose? Well, from Sucre you take a 10 hour bus south to Uyuni. From Uyuni you take a (absolutley freezing) 7 hour bus and then change onto a 2 hour bus to the Argentine bor... |
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 | Arrivals and Departures
2009-07-25, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: Ellamae | | Hola companeros,
Ya estoy acqi! I am here! Yes, Mom & Dad, I am safe. The flight into San Jose was straight forward and I had plenty of opportunities to marvel at southeners while on my layover... |
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 | Wandering Around the City
2009-07-09, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: Kerry20 | | Mike and I arrived safely in San Jose last night after a long bus ride. We got slightly lost on our walk to the hostel, which became rather unnerving because more than one person stopped us and told u... |
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 | Final entry July 3 7 AM
2009-07-03, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Final Entry July 3 7 AM
It is Friday--- our final day before we go home tomorrow and leave this place. I feel sad to go back out into the real world but happy also to go home. Having... |
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| Entry eight
2009-07-01, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Tues. 9:45 Entry eight
My favorite comment of the day was just before we entered the clinic for injections this afternoon. Ian and I were alone in the front seat as the others were bringing aroun... |
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| Entry Seven
2009-06-29, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Entry Seven… Sunday evening
This morning we said good-bye to the people who have become our friends from TX, Colorado and North Carolina. It was really rather sad. Everyday we have been there for e... |
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| Entry Six
2009-06-27, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Entry Six Friday afternoon
The wheelchair part is in Customs now. They say that on Monday an engineer from the Melodia company can come to our hotel and install it. I hope that is true. I can’t b... |
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| Entry Five
2009-06-26, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Entry five Thursday night
It was another full day. Ian had 8 injections in his pectoral muscles. Once again he seemed ready to accept whatever he needed to. The placement of those stem cells will ... |
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| Fourth Entry
2009-06-25, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Entry 4 Wed. evening Once again the pouring down rain has kept us inside of our room with all three of us on laptops. Ian is taking a college algebra class on line so he is trying to keep up with... |
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| Third entry
2009-06-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | |
Day 4
11:15 We have an hour now to hang around the pool between appointments. Ian slept all the way through the night last night and has not felt bad at all. We all needed the rest.My e-mail is ha... |
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| Second Entry
2009-06-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | Day 3: I am officially frustrated. The wheelchair is broken which makes Ian even more dependent and less happy. He has to be pushed everywhere. Even to go outside for the lovely breakfast buffet aroun... |
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| Our first days
2009-06-23, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: sconner3 | | This is going to be in reverse order of how the days have progressed. Today is day 3. Day 1 was traveling. Day 2 was our first day here and now we are at day 3. In about one hour we will go for Ian's ... |
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 | Last Day.......sniff sniff
2009-01-23, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: vonjo27 | | This is our last day in Costa Rica :( We're both really sad that we have to leave this place and in no way are we happy to go home right now....it's quite depressing- back to the cold, school, wo... |
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 | Good-byes
2008-07-13, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! This will be my last journal entry for my trip to Costa Rica. I want to say thanks to everyone for your comments and encouragement. My time here has been more than I ever expected it to b... |
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| Campa Elévate
2008-07-01, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Good morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know we certainly had a great one here in Costa Rica! We held a bilingual youth camp for the youth from the church in Tres Rios and the youth from ... |
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| Free days
2008-06-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! I hope you're all doing well and enjoying your summers. We've had several days off since our last team left, but we've yet to catch up on our sleep! Jaxon, Parker and Amy's son, turned a ... |
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| Tilaran
2008-06-19, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Wow! Where to start? We just got back from El Dos de Tilaran in the province of Guanacaste, which is about 4 hours from San José. The team from South Carolina left today as well, so it's somewhat of ... |
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| Weekend stuff
2008-06-16, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! It's been several days since my last post and we're about to embark on a three-night trip to Tilaran (about four hours away) so I figured I'd update you while I can. The last few days hav... |
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| Preparations
2008-06-12, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | Hi everyone! I wanted to write a cool Spanish greeting to open this post, but this site requires all text to be in English. So, English it is... Today was a busy day because our first team is coming i... |
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| I made it!
2008-06-10, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: DaniGurl2 | | So...I officially arrived in Costa Rica last night around 9:30! There's a two-hour time difference, so it was 11:30 in the States. I experienced my first car ride of the trip on the way to Parker and ... |
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 | White water rafting the Rio Toro
2008-03-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: mira | | Today was the last of my adventure activities for this trip. I can honestly say, even before I started today I was exhausted, sore and bruised... so then I went an multplied the pain I was in.
The... |
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 | Goodbye Costa Rica
2008-02-17, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, am now in Panama but I'll update with news on my new country soon. For now stories of my last week ....
On Thursday it was my last day at the Guarderia so I said goodbye to my little angels a... |
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 | Fame at last !!
2008-02-13, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Hey - one of my photos of the sunset at Playa Samara has been put on the home page of this site as photo of the day !!! I'm so proud !!! |
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 | 3rd or 4th time lucky with a volcano ?
2008-02-03, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | As my regular readers will know I have a love-hate relationship with volcanoes. Since Guatemala I have admired them from afar however I decided it was time to bite the bullet again and give them anoth... |
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| Some observations ....
2008-01-29, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | There was a guy called William Walker from the US who I keep coming across when I read about the countries I visit - apparently he wanted to take over Latin America in the 1800's, kept invading (unsuc... |
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| Message for my dear step-niece Amy ...
2008-01-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Don't even think about sweet-talking my mum into stories about me (I can feel my brother´s hand in this ....) - and Sarah and Gill (correct spelling) weren´t all that well behaved!
Just remember bro ... |
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| Callate !
2008-01-23, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Just a quick entry ... was having dinner here at the house and I asked Betty (my house mother) how to say "shut up" in Spanish. Both her and Oscar laughed and told me .."Callate !" and proceeded to te... |
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 | Just hanging around in the park ...
2008-01-15, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | This is more like it - I´m finding my feet now !
Got my routine sorted with the kids, I still spend about an hour with the 3 year olds in the morning which is about enough for me (and I suspect for... |
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| This is bloody hard work !!
2008-01-10, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Well, I´ve done 3 days now at the day care centre and I´m knackered ! Luckily for me (and the babies) I´ve managed to avoid the babies since the first day. In the morning I tend to keep and eye on the... |
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| Do something that scares you every day !
2008-01-08, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Oh god, just finished my first day ..... After having had to get 3 different local buses into downtown San Jose and then out to Barrio Naciones Unidas I arrived at the centre a tad nervous.
I was a... |
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| I feel like a newbie again ...
2008-01-07, San Jose, Costa Rica. By: cbr600f | | Can´t find the exclamation mark on this keyboard so will use the asterix **
Well, just a short entry to let you know I have enrolled on my new project here in San Jose. I arrived at the language sc... |
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