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Summary of my 4 Weeks in Nicaragua (Weeks 5 – 9)

July 30th, 2012 | Mid-Trip, Nicaragua | 3 comments   

Sorry for not posting for a long time. Here is what I was busy doing my last weeks in Central America… Fixing Medical Equipment For me, the learning curve was pretty steep in the first weeks working in the hospital. I got so used to the lifestyle in Costa Rica that I didn’t anticipate having […]

Week 4

July 9th, 2012 | Costa Rica, Mid-Trip, Nicaragua | Comments Off on Week 4   

Spanish Class We’ve wrapped up all the grammar topics in the textbook (200+ pages over a whole month — so much work!) at the beginning of the week. The remainder of the week, the rest of the classmates gave their presentations on the centrifuge (la centrifuga), anesthesia machine (la maquina de anesthesia), electrosurgery unit ( la maquina de […]

Week 2 & 3

June 20th, 2012 | Costa Rica, Mid-Trip | Comments Off on Week 2 & 3   

Spanish Class Week 2: We were given a textbook made especially for the school and we’ve been flying through a lot of grammar topics in it. Specifically, we’ve gone through nine verb tenses (2 of which were new to me) and other useful topics such as prepositions and the various uses of estar, ser, haber, […]

Week 1

June 6th, 2012 | Costa Rica, Mid-Trip | Comments Off on Week 1   

Settling into the Homestay I arrived in Costa Rica on Tuesday and I got settled into my homestay with my new roommates Alex and Friz. We really enjoy our homestay. Our homestay family has been really helpful to us and has feed us really good Costa Rican food. Spanish Class On weekdays of my stay […]