{"id":14132,"date":"2016-07-02T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:42:53","slug":"summer-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/summer-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/10\/13226945_10154280819708086_181621766235278458_n-Cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14133 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/10\/13226945_10154280819708086_181621766235278458_n-Cropped-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"13226945_10154280819708086_181621766235278458_n-cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/10\/13226945_10154280819708086_181621766235278458_n-Cropped-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/10\/13226945_10154280819708086_181621766235278458_n-Cropped.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I had a great experience during the summer semester study abroad program in Costa Rica.\u00a0 I not only gained the educational experience that was provided through the wonderful instructors at ILISA and other students from all over the world, but also cultural experience through the home-stay.\u00a0 The family I had the pleasure of staying with was very kind and helpful in allowing me to practice my Spanish.\u00a0 One afternoon, I had the opportunity, through ILISA, to spend some time at a local orphanage and give them some gifts.\u00a0 I think the kids enjoyed it as much as us students did.\u00a0 Overall, I had a great experience and learned a lot. I would recommend anyone that wants to learn a new language to take the opportunity to study abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great experience during the summer semester study abroad program in Costa Rica.\u00a0 I not only gained the educational experience that was provided through the wonderful instructors at ILISA and other students from all over the world, but also cultural experience through the home-stay.\u00a0 The family I had the pleasure of staying with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/summer-costa-rica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A summer in Costa Rica<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":14134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9,909,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-costa-rica-spanish","category-costa-rica-spanish-language","category-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14205,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions\/14205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}