My first two weeks here in San Isidro have gone by so quickly! I have started my internship with our partner agency, Casa de la Juventud and met some really amazing people! The staff here are all very excited to continue working with Amigos and for the J-term project to begin.

Some updates on the J-term project: We have a famous local volcanologist Jorge Barquero coming to talk at Tenorio park and possibly for the CV training in San Jose. Applications have been made for the Costa Rican youth to fill out and we have been getting a lot of people interested! We also have made plans to visit Inbio parque right outside of San Jose. Have an advance look here:

http://www.inbio.ac.cr/inbioparque/es/index.html

Casa has already selected their supervisor Denis, who went to all three parks on previous campamentos and he is a high school teacher in one of the communities towards the southern part of Pérez Zeledón. Next week I will be surveying the three parks: Tenorio, Manuel Antonio, and Chirripo. The park directors also seemed very enthused to work with us again this year and are excited to meet with me! I will be sure to take some pictures at the park so that you may get a chance to see the beauty these parks contain.

I think that for the first two weeks we are off to a great start! I look forward to meeting those who have applied and if there are any questions or comments please feel free to post them and I will try to get back to you asap!

Until next week (when I should have some more park information)!

¡Pura Vida!
 

Oh, I have included some pictures and a video I took with Kristen H. from IO in Dominical my first weekend here.

Playa Dominical 

Relaxing by the water in Dominical 

Street view of San Isidro de el General