ASA in Costa Rica Community Service Activities

The community service component allows you deepen your appreciation of Costa Rican life and improve fluency as you work alongside locals on service projects. After a training session, students will meet 3 times a week for approximately 3 hours at a time. Projects include working at a nursing home, working with young girls at a local orphanage, as well as working on various environmental and recycling projects in the surrounding countryside and national parks. The service projects are demanding but you'll also have some time to unwind and maybe even play some soccer with the locals at the end of the day. Students will receive official certification of completion of 35 hours of community service.

ASA in Costa Rica Trips

There are many exciting activities and excursions planned so you can make the most of your time in Costa Rica. Highlights include a visit the Arenal volcano and hot springs at night to see the lava glow, drawing and painting workshops, bowling, soccer, basketball, visit to a butterfly farm outside of San José, visit a finca (coffee farm), Poas volcano and waterfall, cooking classes to prepare traditional Costa Rican dishes, dance class so you can master Salsa and Meringue, white water rafting, Tortuguero reserve and its turtles, monkeys, parrots and crocodiles, the Guanacaste beach resort.

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Homestay

Combine intensive formal language instruction with real-life immersion in daily life and culture to help improve language skills while gaining an intimate knowledge of the host country’s culture. Choose from carefully selected locations to ensure you get the most from your summer. You will be treated as a special guest and take your language learning to an entirely different level for a truly authentic immersion experience.

“The program was a great eye opening experience for me. It introduced me to a new culture and provided me with an excellent understanding of Spanish.” Meredith W.
Applications Accepted Beginning August 2008

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