First Two days!

Written by Mollie Schillinger


On our first day of the trip, all we did was travel. It was a very long day. I still thought that it was pretty fun though. We also had our first taste of what the meals were going to be like for the rest of the trip. Today was when the trip started getting interesting. We woke up this morning and had our first breakfast here, then we met with Epsy, a strong political leader here in Costa Rica. She was very kind and interesting to talk to. After meeting with her, we headed out into the city of San Jose. We saw a lot of cool and interesting things that most of us probably never saw before. It was cool to see how different it was compared to Pittsburgh. One major difference were the cars! They nearly hit us many times and they do not really stop for people, or let people cross.

After being in the city and walking around there we had lunch at a local place, and it was very good. We then headed to the National Museum of Costa Rica. It was really cool there. We got to see butterflys along with a lot of cool plants. Overall the past two days have been a lot of fun, but also very long. I am really excited to be starting our service work tomorrow.