Landing in San Jose, I did not get off to the best start for the trip. I discovered after waiting at the airport for 2 and a half hours that the person picking me up had thought I was arriving on Friday rather than Saturday. After some calling round which nearly included a call to the British Embassy I was picked up and taken to my host family. I'm not going to lie, it was a shock to learn that I would be spending the weekend with a host family and then to find out none of them spoke English was almost a disaster! I stumbled my way through my first conversation in broken Spanish and discovered that it rains ALL AFTERNOON EVERY AFTERNOON during the wet season!
My family were so kind to me and I learnt so much aout Costa Rican culture and some very useful Spanish phrases but it was soon off to the Amistad Institute who explained where I would be going for my turtle conservation project.
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