1	School For Field Studies: Atenas, Costa Rica Holly Smith Carolyn Mohr Kendal Stewart Caroline Hartridge
2	Living Conditions 4 people per room Bunk beds Big Common Room Indoor/Outdoor Classroom Pool Organic Farm & Garden Hammocks!
3	Food! Personal Chef Mon-Fri lunch & dinner Variety of vegetable and meat dishes Students made breakfast Yayos and places to eat in town Pizza Chinese food Internet Cafe
4	Daily Schedule Pandillas = Chore groups Gardening Cleaning Dorms Composting Recycling Cooking
5	Classes Juan Economics Ingemar Natural Resource Management Gerardo Ecology/Biology
6	Field Trips Trips to farms, national parks, protected areas, organic market, private reserve, & the beach! Some over night Sleep in the rainforest or on the beach
7	FEX Field Exercises One per week One with each professor One day exercise One day write up
8	DR-Directed Research Self select into professor’s group: Macroinvertebrates as bioindicators Effects of ecotourism on a gateway community Orchid Bees as bioindicators on organic versus conventional coffee farms Fragmentation effects of highway on bird populations
9	Other Students Different schools Different ages Different majors Different interests
10	Community Interactions Limited in Summer Program More involved during semester: Home stay Work shops/Ranchito Tea, lanterns, paper, games, Bingo
11	Service Projects Tree Planting in Bosque Municipal Dengue Campaign Garden Building Recycling Campaign Fundraising for school in the community
12	Questions? Feel free to contact us: Caroline x7365 Kendal x7538 Carolyn x7651 Holly x6892