Maggie, with 1 of our group's guides, on the last stretch of ziplining through the Monteverde Cloud Forest Canopy (1.5 miles long). Wow, was that exciting and quite the adventure.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
The past few days in Costa Rica...
Shiny and Sharon working on the signs that we made for Coopesanjuan, the pineapple cooperative.
Playing soccer with the locals at Coopesanjuan. Local ticos, Daniel, Jacquie, and Maggie.
Our Otterbein group with Denia, the manager of Coopesanjuan, and two local children, Jordy and Joseph.
Alyssa dancing with quite possibly the best dancer in all of Costa Rica, Joseph - one of the children of the families that we stayed with in Coopesanjuan.
Taking the canoe from Cahuita to Yorkin to visit the Bribri and Guayemese, indigenous tribes.
Sharon learning how to catch dinner with the bow and arrow demonstration.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Hello everyone. Sorry we haven´t written in a while, but we have been experiencing the lack of connection to the outside world... aka... the U.S. We have been very busy burning calories by walking through the cloud forest in Monteverde. Hope to see everyone soon.
·Alyssa Miller. International Business and Marketing. Class of 2010.
Please use the tilt head effect. It would take another 45 minutes to rotate this picture (appreciate the United States of Internet)
P.S. This is at the Continental Divide.
Zip lining through the cloud forest. Some were scared but ¨I´ll never tell.¨
The surprise ¨Tarzan Jump¨ after 13 zip lines through the Canopy!
Yes we picked up a stray, can you guess who?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Coffee Tasting
Laura Mantle c/o 2010 Business Administration.
Although some of us are not avid coffee drinkers, this was a once in a lifetime chance to do a taste test with a professional coffee taster.
L- R: Sharon, Maggie, Dr. Lehman and Laura
L-R: Kate and Alyssa
Day 2, December 1
Smell the coffee. . .
~Sharon Zalokar, PR major. Class of 2010
Time to get to work in the coffee bean field's of Cicafe.
Bottom: Shiny, Seth, Kate, Jacquie, Sharon, Maggie, Alyssa
Top: Daniel, Laura, Renee, Dr Cornell
Sharon working in the field's. It takes 50 beans to make one cup of espresso.
Hit the field's Dr Lehman and Shiny, you get paid by the basket. . .approximately 1100 colones ($2)
Six cups of coffee are sampled at a time to assure aromatic, acidity, flavor and body. Higher the altitude the higher the acidic content.
Costa Rican's work towards sustainablity. Photo of bean's drying in the sun at Cafe De Costa Rica Brumas del Zurqui
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