It’s rather surreal: I have been living in Costa Rica for 24 days now. That’s 3 weeks without a cell phone. And essentially TV, since the televisions in my host family’s house are located in rather inconvenient places for me (my parents’ room and my brother’s ‘lair,’ as I like to call it). On the [...]

So I have less than a month here in the United States before I jet off to Costa Rica for a good four months. My feelings? Very mixed. A veritable melting pot of emotions, one swirling after the other and wisps of it emanating from time to time. Alright, enough with the wordiness, but one [...]

So spring break is coming up in a few weeks. I honestly don’t know what to make of it. I’m about 7 weeks into this semester, and yet I feel like I have not done anything worthwhile with my life in comparison to last fall. I can’t think about school; I feel like at this [...]

Drumroll, please. I have just been recently accepted to the study abroad program for Costa Rica next semester. Though I didn’t think I would have a problem getting accepted, just knowing that I am now officially in feels great. I have no idea what sort of repercussions this will have on my academic track, since [...]