It was an early start as we departed campus at 5:45am on March 5. It was a long travel day for our group as we finally got into San Jose, Costa Rica around 9pm. Our guide instructor, Stanley met us at the airport and brought us to EPI's (Ecology Project International) campus about 30 minutes from the airport. We were finally about to get into bed around midnight, but only got a few hours of sleep as we had to be up by 5am the next morning.
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| 7am departure for this group leaving Boston for Costa Rica |
On our first full day in Costa Rica, we got up very early to head back to the airport and take a few small planes to Osa Peninsula, about a 50 minute ride by plane.
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| Another early morning start as we leave San Jose and head for Osa Peninsula. |
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| JP boarding the plane. |
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| The group got split in half as we took 2 small planes to Osa Peninsula. |
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| Overlooking Costa Rica. |
We finally settled at our hotel, then met as a group to receive our first curriculum lesson. We were able to learn about the history of Costa Rica. We also worked on our observation skills by looking for a monkey (a fake monkey) that Stanley would hide on us. Marin, our other guide instructor, led us through a lesson on writing effective research questions. This would become helpful later as students would be working on designing research investigations. Later, Mag from LAST (Latin America Sea Turtles), visited us to provide a presentation about sea turtles. We needed preparation how to handle the sea turtles as we would start working with them tomorrow. After a delicious dinner, we were exhausted. We were in bed by 8pm.
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| Our first curriculum lesson as we learn about general information about Costa Rica. |
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| JP drawing North America. |
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| Mag, from LAST, provided a lesson about sea turtles to prepare us for our visit tomorrow. |
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