Day 1

Itinerary

Day 1: Owning your Experience; San Jose Area - Wednesday, April 22

Your students will be challenged to take charge of their experience over the next 9 days in Costa Rica, encouraged to engage in active learning and personal growth, and to have open minds to make the most of this incredible opportunity.

Pura Vida! Welcome to San Jose and to the experiential learning adventure of a lifetime. Your bilingual naturalist guides will meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel to settle in. Share a delicious tropical dinner as your guides set the tone for students owning their experience with active and engaged learning.

Important Themes:

Your guides will introduce the Story Approach and the teaching themes that will cohesively link together the incredible wealth of information you will learn on the trip.
Your group will be introduced to the Expedition Mentality, our nuanced strategy for creating the strongest possible group culture.
Our first nightly circle and bandana ceremony will reinforce the Expedition Mentality and set the tone for the best possible experiential learning trip.

Overnight: Casa Conde

To Costa Rica:

1. UA 1101 22APR WED SEA-IAH 5:45AM- 12:02PM

2. UA 1565 22APR WED IAH-SJO 5:47PM- 8:27PM

Dinner at Hotel

View of San Jose from the plane

Reflection of the Day

The day was full of adrenaline, uncontrollable excitment of the upcoming Costa Rican adventure. The most difficult part of the morning was how to controll the energy, and stay still, seated, and quite in a confined space on not one, but two four-hour flights. At our layover in Houston, we were granted some freedom, but even with space to roam in, we still shivered with nervous excitment. After we got off the plane, just the thought of being in Costa Rica made the long day worth it. We checked in to our hotel, ate a delicious dinner of lasagna and other vegtables with a lemon creame dessert. All in all, the day was long yet rewarding - We were finally in Costa Rica.