Costa Rica

For the month of April 2004, I spent my time in Costa Rica doing an intensive spanish immersion course geared towards medical Spanish.  I didn't really have any Spanish going into this course, except for some travel Spanish tapes and a college Spanish course that I took as an audit (i.e. I never went to class).  So it was quite intense, and I feel a little more comfortable speaking to my patients in Spanish. 

The best part of this program was that I was able to travel on the weekends, and went to some beautiful places.  So here's a little photo documentary of my trip.  I met some great people who are going to make wonderful, bilingual physicians, and made some great traveling and studying buddies.

Check it out.

Me and Marji right before being separated for 1 month. This was taken very very early in the morning.

Miami International airport on the way to Costa Rica.  Pretty colors.

Frogs at the Nbio nature reserve

My humble home for 1 month.

"Lovely" San Jose.  By lovely, I mean polluted.

Random pictures of participants in the program.

Uconn: Basketball Champions of the world.  Or at least of the NCAA for 2004.

VOLCAN ARENAL

MONTEVERDE

White Water Rafting with Rios Tropacales

Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo

Tortuguero

Catarata La Paz

My Tica Family