Over the past two weeks, we have toured several different coffee farms and have seen how it impacts the people of Costa Rica. Experiencing the culture here has also made me aware of why the Tico’s do the things that they do. At the coffee farms we learned so much about how much it takes…

All over the globe Costa Rica is known for two things: 1- it contains the happiest people in the world, and 2- it produces the best coffee in the world. What more could you want from a country? Even the Pope claimed that the best coffee comes from Costa Rica, even though it’s not the…

Touring the farm of Life Monteverde really reminded me of a tropical version of my home. I didn’t live on a farm growing up, but I lived in a small town with plenty of farms and woods around. After hearing Guillermo’s daughter express her view points of the farm before and after moving to a…

Most countries today are the way they are due to the settlement of foreigners on their native ground, and Costa Rica is no exception. For example, the Quakers-including Marvin-  from Alabama in the United States settled in Costa Rica in 1951 because they were not happy with where they were and searched for something different….

My time thus far in Costa Rica has really shown me how differently people around the world view things. Standards do not stay the same throughout the world and someplace with wealth in one country could look like something of disgust in a different country. For example, first coming to Heredia, you can see how…

Cafe Britt is a Costa Rican company that has a very large global presence. In the coffee making process, they handle the roasting stage after they receive the picked and dried beans from coffee farms. However, their biggest market involves tourism and travel retail. Cafe Britt has many shops in airports, especially all over Latin…

Especially after seeing the difference between yesterday (Sunday) and today (Monday), I was starting to become curious as to why the culture has such a diverse religious impact even though the national religion is Catholic and many families are not very religious anyways. Yesterday throughout our walking tour of Heredia, I saw lots of Stars…

Walking into this experience, I was kind of expecting the small city of Heredia to be similar to that of a small village I visited in Mexico. In one way I was right, but I was also very wrong. Heredia has such a unique feel to it, it’s indescribable. Some of the buildings and how…

When I think of Costa Rica, I have the image of a clean, immaculate country that holds all different kinds of beautiful landscapes. My outsider’s perception of those who inhabit Costa Rica consists of people who are in touch with nature and the beauty of their home environment. That being said, it does not surprise me…