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Why you shouldn't study Spanish at Instituto Estelar Bilingüe
Where to begin? I mean, why is Spanish important anyway? It's only the third most-spoken language in the world. If you know English, yo...
Read MoreReady to travel to Costa Rica?
Start planning your trip!
Are you ready to take a plane somewhere - anywhere! - and experience new things? After all these months of restricted movement, people are starting to travel once again to ...
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I've got a new attitude
Remember this song from the 80s? It seems appropriate to describe the shift...
Read MoreLearning Spanish from the Perspective of an English Teacher
Whilst living in Costa Rica, I have worked my way through two separate, yet complementary processes; teaching English and studying Spanish. I arrived in Costa Rica from Scotland with a fairly basic level of S...
Read MoreGuanacaste Love
Living in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, has been a really great experience for me. I have been down here for around 7 months, and I have done so many things. I never thought I would have so many adventures in my life. I even had a friend come down to visit me this week and we ar...
Read MoreMonteverde Cloud Forest
When I was planning my trip to Costa Rica, I told myself I wouldn’t visit too many parks that are such a hype that you can’t see the trees through the tourists. But I could not stay away from the iconic Monteverde. In fact, I find it hard to describe it in a factual sens...
Read MoreSand, surf, and learning about myself
I love the beaches in Costa Rica more than anything. Right now, my favorite place to go to is Santa Teresa, which is south of Liberia. I went there for a couple weeks with some people I met to check out that side of the country. That beach has to be the most beautiful beach...
Read MoreExciting times in Liberia, Costa Rica!
Here in Liberia, they have a lot of activities always going on in the central park or around the city, so it is a really exciting week to be studying Spanish at Instituto Estelar Bilingüe. This week they are having their Fiestas Civicas and there are tons of people walking ...
Read MoreCoffee in Costa Rica
One thing I really like about Costa Rica is the coffee that they have here. Everyday I always want to get some. It’s so delicious! Here in Liberia, I have seen people make coffee with the traditional Costa Rican "chorreador," and it actually tastes better than the machine-...
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