This Monday morning we started the week with a feeling of emptiness in our school. After more than 5 months of intense work, Susanna has finished her intership at Academia Tica. Last Thursday night we had a goodbye dinner party in San José. The day after, the rest of the teachers and staff got a […]
Category Archives: On Campus
Spanish teacher training course in Jacó Beach
A quick update to share some pictures. These ones are from last Friday when we gathered our “dream team” of teachers at the Academia Tica Jacó campus for a training day. This is part of our plan for continuous development, for sharing ideas and learning new teaching techniques. Also a chance to enjoy some lunch, […]
Amazing corn
We loaded our plates with fresh empañadas, cheesy tortillas and sweet chorreadas, unwrapping huge banana leaves to reveal steaming tamales filled with veggies and meat. We ohhed, ahhed and salivated over the tamal asado, a sticky sweet cornbread that frankly put me over the edge of satisfied, too full to try any more typical Costa Rican dishes made from maize, the star ingredient in […]
A fresh take on fruit
Studying takes a turn for the delicious at Academia Tica’s fruit tasting class, where we sample some of Costa Rica’s most sumptuous offerings. After an hour at this mouth-watering table we know our mangos from our mangas, our guanabanas from our guabas, our nances from our elbows. In Costa Rica fruit is a USD $1.5 […]