01/11/16

Today it was difficult to wake up! The weekend really wiped all of us out. We had to wake up early, though, because we had another quiz in class! It wasn’t terribly hard, although tomorrow we have a midterm!

After class Charlie, Ryan, Chris, Drew and I got empanadas from Don Ro, a sweet old man on campus who has a little barbecue stand!

Charlie and I hung out for a while, then went to Beach Club for dinner. Jess took Morghan out for her birthday (it was yesterday, but still!). They went to Hooters!! Here's a picture:

This morning, before class, Jess, Karen and I met with our director named Lisa. We told her this:

-We felt unprepared for the field trip (our professor asked us to buy many things when we were told we didn’t have to).

-We were told we would have one day excursion and one weekend excursion, but have been denied both.

-We were told that we had class only four days a week, but instead we have five. This leaves us with a grand total of 0 days off!

-On the syllabus, it says this class includes 60 contact hours. However, we did the math, and when you add up 15 hours a week for 3 weeks and the two weekends, our class comes to a total of 109 hours! That is way more than 3 credits worth.

-Most of us feel that if we had known this is what the course entailed, we would have chosen not to take this course.

Lisa was very concerned and interested, and very compassionate. She wants us to explore Costa Rica just as much as we do, so she is going to talk to someone higher up, and she will then talk to someone at the university. Hopefully this goes somewhere, otherwise I don’t know what we will do!