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Mas noticias de Costa Rica (More new from Costa Rica)

Hola!

Como estan ustedes? Pura vida aqui en Ticolandia. Que rapido pasa el tiempo, verdad? Pero, nunca me olvidare este experiencia ni a la gente que yo encontre aqui.

Yo he viajado a dos lugares hasta mi ultimo correo. Hace dos semanas yo fui a Monteverde, donde yo hice los 'zip-lines'. Que divertido! Yo tuve un experiencia marvillosa. Tres otros estudiantes y yo salimos de San Jose a las 2:30 el viernes y llegamos en Monteverde a las 8:45...era un paseo muy largo, pero no me importo. En el bus, encontramos a tres personas de Londres y cuando encontramos el hotel, ellos estaban quedado en el mismo lugar. Entonces, todos de nosotros pasabamos el fin de semana juntos.

El sabido fuimos al canopy para hacer los zip lines y un tour por los puentes. Yo tengo miedo de alturas, por eso eso dia yo tuve mucho miedo a hacer el zip line, pero yo lo hice, y estoy feliz que lo hice porque fue marvillosa. Yo sentia como un pajaro. Estabamos en alturas de casi 300ft en los arboles con solo una ropa y un pedazo de metal, pero la experiencia fue increible!

Despues nosotros regresamos del canopy, fuimos en un tour del bosque en el oscuro. No podimos ver muchos animales, pero fue muy interesante y vimos un Tarantula, un racoon y otros animales (lo siento, yo no se las palabras por aquellos en espanol). El domingo, anduvimos y exploramos el pueblo por unas horas y a las 2:30, salimos para San Jose.

Hace una semana yo fui a Manuel Antonio con otra companera de la escuela. La playa es tan bonita y el parque es maravilloso, pero habia mucha lluvia. Sin embargo yo tuve un tiempo buenisimo. Yo saque muchos fotos de la playa y el bosque y yo vi unos monos y otros animales. Fue un viaje muy relajante.

Este fin de semano yo ire al volcan Irazul con un amigo que vive aqui en San Jose. El domingo yo ire con el mismo amigo, la madre de el y mi mama tica a una iglesia Catolica. En el proximo fin de semana (el ultimo) yo ire a Guanacaste por la festival que tiene el 25 de julio. La festival es un celebracion de la fecha que Guanacate unido con Costa Rica. Pero mi amigo me dijo que iremos a 4 playas. Que divertido, verdad?

Bien es todo por ahora. Hasta luego!

Christine


For non-Spanish speakers out there here is a quick summary. Christine is enjoying her experience in Costa Rica. She went zip lining and faced her fear of heights. She loved it. She also went to a beach and forest that was amazing and saw all sorts of wildlife. She is headed to a volcano next weekend with her host mom, a friend and his mom where there is a festival. There will be four beaches!
PS She is also studying hard and it shows!

Gustavo in Korea

Hello all!
I recently traveled all over Korea with a group of students and professors from PSU led by Dr. Lee. In the picture above, I am with Dr. Lee and some of the students in the Seoul Tower. Here are a few pictures of me with the group. In a few of them, you may have to play, Where's Gustavo?
Ahh do I look like candy? The students needed some extra entertainment at the museum.

Yumm noodles

With the group and some dancers from a show at a traditional Korean village

It was great fun! Look for posts from the participants.
Happy travels,
Gustavo

A picture is worth a thousand words

Dr. Daniel Zurek from the Biology department led the Pre-Meds in Peru group. He sent me some of these pictures. He also told me that the group served over 800 patients during their 2 weeks.
Enjoy the pictures!

In Peru with the Premeds

Hello! Gus reporting.
I just returned from an amazing program in Peru with a group of 20 pre-med and pre-dent majors at PSU. We traveled to several different villages in the Cusco area. In the area we were able to do some basic check ups & procedures and distribute medicine thanks to the help of our hosts ProPeru.
Here are some pictures of me with some of our patients and of the group I traveled with. I made lots of new friends in Peru!
Hasta luego,
Gus

Noticias from Christine in Costa Rica

Christine will be a senior in Nursing at Pittsburg State. She is spending two months in San Jose, Costa Rica this summer studying Spanish and specifically medical Spanish. She sent this message which I translated for you.

How are all of you? I am good here in Costa Rica.
Despite my sickness (a stomach illness that Christine's host mom nursed her through), my trip to Puerto Viejo was very fun. Puerto Viejo is very different from other places I have visited. the poeple are a little strange and don't do much. There is a strong Jamacan influence so the food and people are different. However, I liked it a lot.
Friday five friends of mine and I went to a restaurant that had live music and people did tricks with fire, in the US we call them "flame twirlers." It was very interesting. Saturday we went to the beach to snorkel, surf and swim. I couldn't snorkel or surf because it scared me but I swam a lot. Then we went to a restaurant and then some of us went to dance at a bar. It was really fun. We danced salsa, merengue and cumbia for hours. What fun!

Sunday we rented bikes and went to another beach called Punta Uva. It was very pretty. On the way to the beach we stopped at a chocolate plantation and bought chocolate. Then we came back to San Jose. It was my favorite trip so far.
I like school and the professors a lot! I am learning a lot and I hope it is evident from my messages. See you.
Christine


Original Message:
Como estan ustedes? Estoy bien aqui en Costa Rica.

Sin mi enfermedad, mi viaje a Puerto Viejo estaba muy divertido. Puerto Viejo es un lugar muy diferente que otras lugares que he visitado. La gente alli es un poco extrano y no hace mucho. Hay un gran influencia Jaimaca, entonces la comida y la gente son diferente. Sin embargo, me gustaria mucho. El viernes 5 amigias mia y yo fuimos a un restarante que tenia musica en vivo y personas que hacia trucos con fuego, que se llama en los estados unidos "flame twirlers". Fue muy interesante. El sabido fuimos a la playa para bucear con snorkel, surfear y nadar. Yo no pude bucear, ni surfear, porque me dieron miedo, pero yo nadi mucho. Luego nosotros fuimos a un resturante y despues algunos de nosotros fuimos a bailar en un bar. Fue tan divertido. Bailemos la salsa, el merengue y el cumbia por horas. Que divertido! El domingo aquilaremos bicicletas y fuimos a una otra playa que se llama, punta uva. Ella es tan bonita! Por el camino a la playa nosotros paramos en un plantacion de chocolate y compramos chocolate. Luego regresemos a San Jose. Fue mi viaje favorito hasta yo he llegado.

Me gusta mucho la escuela y las profesoras alli. Yo estoy aprendido mucho, yo espero que sea evidente en mis mensajes! Hasta luego!

Postcards from abroad

Hey everyone, If you are abroad right now for the semester or going abroad this summer on individual programs, please send Postcards to Gus and Gustavo. I will publish them on this blog. It will great to have this as a travel log of PSU students abroad.
I can post your Postcard with a picture also. So if send your pic of you or where you are. If you have anything Pitt Statey with you get it in the pic!
Send the postcards to my email!
Safe travels to all,
Julia

Gustavo in Russia

Hello from Russia!

I am Gustavo the Gnome, Gus the Gorilla's friend. I traveled with the SIFE Group from PSU that went to Kazan over the winter break for about 10 days. Here are some pictures of my experience. First I am hanging out at school and then the students stuck me outside in the snow. Brrrrr so I decided to warm up with a nice cup of Russian tea. Yummy! I had so much fun with these guys.

Introductions

Hello All,

This blog is for Pittsburg State students or prospective students that are interested in or have participated in the study abroad program.

We have students that travel on group programs, through exchange programs and through other programs. I am Gus the Gorilla and my friend Gustavo the Gnome are going to travel with as many students as possible to see the world and document PSU students abroad. We can't do it all so if you are studying abroad through PittState and want to blog contact our friend Julia in Intl Programs about helping us out.

Gustavo already went out on his first program. Read all about it in the Russia post!

Welcome and please share this with friends that may want to read about PSU Study Abroad.

Explore, Discover, Learn!