2024 LFSF Costa Rica Cultural Journey

Juliette: I had a lot of fun playing tag with Edith the friends and the kids.

Léonore: The food was really good and I had fun playing tag with everyone.

Penelope: The party was a great idea to spend one last night with the families.

Lucie: Everyone looked really good and everyone was getting along, the food was really good as well

Simone: I had so much fun eating dinner with my family and playing tag in the fields with my host siblings, lfsf friends and other host family children.

Charlotte : I had much fun hanging out and speaking Spanish all the time with the girls of my family and other host family siblings and playing tag with everyone in the field.

Madeleine: I had a really great time getting ready and dressed with my friends and meeting new people and being able to converse with them. I enjoyed eating with my family and playing tag with my class and family.

Manon: I was glad that we got to play tag with the family kids, even though we didn’t know each other.

Juliette: when they welcome us to their house and open arms. And they also let go in the truck in the night

Léonore: the family was really caring and the food was really good

Penelope: It was really fun to be with the families and great to improve my Spanish. It was interesting to eat rice and beans for breakfast.

Lucie: Seeing how much they cared about us even though we barely knew them and had a language barrier was really heartwarming.

Simone: I loved our dinners together, speaking Spanish and English with my host father, my host mother’s delicious cooking, talking about the drama with my host sister Liz, bonding with their dog Luna and playing Uno during the mornings and evenings all together.

Charlotte: I had so much fun speaking with my host family all the time in Spanish, playing bilangual card games with the host children, eating the delicious food my host mother made for us, playing with the animals in the house    and it was so nice to see they cared so much about us.

Madeleine: My host family was so sweet and kind and even though we had a language barrier we were able to converse and learn about each other. My family also had a daughter around my age so me and my friends where able to befriend her and even with the language barrier we were able to converse about all topics.

Juliette: I had a lot of fun doing the musical chairs and also playing hot potato.

Léonore: I had fun playing games and at the end they gave us candy

Penelope: We played fun games to improve our Spanish like charades, sopa de lettras and others.

Lucie:Playing different games to improve our Spanish and communicating with people I don’t usually talk to

Mr. Miller: learning about cheese production and being welcomed by such a friendly community

Mme Robé: I feel like I now have a Costa rican mum and dad

Anton: going into the forest with my host dad and learning from him about coffee and tasting the coffee fruit

Simone: I loved playing musical chairs, completing “crucigramas”, creating chants and playing other fun games with my group.

Charlotte: I loved playing games with the Spanish teachers and my peers all in Spanish and enjoying new and different experiences with them.

Madeleine: The games were very immersive and funny especially creating the chants and the sack race.

Manon: The various games played were fun, helpful, interesting and we were all eager to play.