Taking time for Pura Vida
Following the hustle and bustle of file-reading season, coordination of a few accepted student receptions, and two record-setting open houses, I jumped at the first chance to take some time to visit a friend who is halfway through her Peace Corps assignment in Costa Rica. (FYI: In recent history Seattle U has found itself on the "Top 25" list of
American colleges and universities with the highest number of alumni
currently serving in the corps.) We did some standard tourist stuff-- zip lines, snorkeling, hiking to waterfalls, etc. We also took a couple of days to visit Las Mellizas, my friend's assignment location and a small community of coffee farmers in a rural mountain town about a mile north of the border with Panama. In a place where nobody had heard of Starbucks, the coffee was exquisite. Imagine.
I've returned rested and wiser, eager to convince the admissions team of the untapped potential in my returning to Costa Rican high schools to help bring the Pura Vida spirit to SU.
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Some highlights:
Montezuma Sunset
Las Mellizas and surrounding coffee farms
Zip Line Extraordinaires
Flying 600 meters
Trolling the waters of the Pacific
View from the Puntarenas ferry