Four more days until I, along with 18 other people, board a plane for Costa Rica. To say I’m excited would be an understatement. I’ve been wanting to study abroad on this coffee trip for two years now. I can’t believe the trip is finally here! Along with excitement, I’m…
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I hadn’t been able to get excited about the trip just yet. I have had so much work to complete beforehand between my research and my classes. My luggage is half packed though. So I have that going for me. This isn’t my first study abroad experience; I stayed in…
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I feel like there is a countdown; A mad rush to the best experience of a life time. I leave for Costa Rica in less than thirty hours. Wow! There is so much to do. I keep going through a mental checklist that lives at the forefront of my mind….
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This is it. The twenty-four hour mark has finally arrived for my anticipated study abroad trip to Costa Rica. At this time tomorrow, I will be boarding a plane with fellow classmates from UGA to travel nearly two thousand miles away to Costa Rica to fully immerse myself in learning…
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At this time tomorrow I will be in Costa Rica! It has been a long wait since I applied for the program several months ago, but the semester has flown by and departure is less than 24 hours away. Planning the final details of any international trip can be stressful,…
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It is less than a day before I head off to Costa Rica and I have nothing packed. I’ve only ever traveled out of the country once when I was twelve and my mom did my packing for me, so I don’t consider myself a professional international packer. What’s the…
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Hey Guys, I recently went on the Coffee: From Bean to Cup study abroad in Costa Rica. On the trip, we visited several coffee farmers and learned about coffee production. This blog post is going to be about my favorite farmer of the entire trip, Oldemar. In most cases, coffee…
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Hi Everyone! I recently got back from the Coffee: From Bean to Cup study abroad in Costa Rica! I went a few days early, so I got to explore the beautiful Costa Rica for 9 days…I loved every minute of it! The main focus of the trip is to learn…
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Since the Wifi was flaky during the trip, I’ll cover both ‘during-trip’ and ‘post-trip’ in one blog. During-trip Before the trip, I was both nervous and excited about checking out the Rainforest. My perception or thoughts about the rainforest included: poisonous bugs, poisonous snakes, poisonous plants and super dark. How…
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While staying on the UGA campus in Costa Rica, we stayed in dorm-like rooms with roommates. The rooms were very nice, however, you needed a flashlight to travel around campus at night because they had limited outside lighting and it got very dark in the mountains where we were. Campus…
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