Costa Rica 7/3/12

The group had a wonderful few days in the cloud forest, and when we spoke to the leaders earlier today, they were sitting down for lunch at a restaurant in San Isidro del General, the city nearest to the host community. The group is eager to meet their new families this afternoon!

The group has arrived to their orientation site of San Gerardo de Rivas near the Cloudbridge Reserve! Yesterday, they took a nice long hike through a local Farm that has a swath of protected primary forest. They saw coffee plants and banana, avocado, and mango trees, and each student even planted their own tree at

Everyone has arrived safely in San Jose and the program is underway!