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Kayaking, Snorkelling and Helping the Turtles in Costa Rica
Pura Vida! The Costa Rica Leap team is busy over here at Playa Matapalo. We’ve been keeping up with our hatchery shifts and patrols, and of course, helping many baby turtles get safely to the sea!...
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Teaching in Matapalo
The Leap team took our nurturing skills down to the local school during our time in Matapalo as well. We found that the kids there were quite a bit more chatty than the turtle hatchlings, and also...
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Turtle Hatching in Costa Rica
What do you do in Costa Rica?” “So what do you even do in Matapalo?” “But what do you DO with the turtles?” These are the questions we’re bombarded with any time someone finds out that we’re on this...
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Bye Bye Monteverde.
It’s our last week together as a Leap team, and we’re busier than ever! This week, we’ve been at Parque Ecopaz, which is a public park and reforestation project. Our first day, we learned a lot about...
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Welcome to Costa Rica! :)
Going into week one of our Costa Rican service trip I don’t think anyone here knew what to expect. When we all initially met most of us were all tired and sluggish from the long plane rides over....
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Our exciting adventures in Costa Rica are well underway! :)
Week two’s service was definitely a nice combination of physical work, creative outlets, and further immersion into the community. The weekend began with a nice boat outing with a few of us Saturday...
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Week 3 in Costa Rica: Beach Life
Week three started off with furthering our mission of making the younger kids of the community more environmentally aware. Monday we presented to the kids in the morning and in the afternoon. We went...
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Schooling in Costa Rica
This week we were able to go to the school every morning for two hours to teach English, play sports, and do crafts. My first group was teaching English and I just want to start off by saying that it...
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Week 6: Tiny Turtles!
Monday was our last day at the green rooms for the next few weeks. We were all sad to leave, and were especially sad to leave Brendan and Josie’s family, as well as our favourite Spanish teacher Lili....
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Say hello to our new Costa Rica blogger Emily…
Hey everyone! My name is Emily Dinovo and I am super excited to be blogging on behalf of everyone headed to Costa Rica for 10 weeks. I am 18 years old and just graduated from high school (12th grade)...
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Monteverde adventure week…
So this week we started with an early morning road trip to Monteverde. It was a treacherous journey. 3 hours on the mini bus and then a ferry ride and then another 3 hours on the mini bus again....
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A leap or THE Leap… meet Hamish our April Costa Rica blogger
A Leap or The Leap? Six months ago I took a leap into the unknown. Probably the biggest one yet. Arriving in Sydney, alone, with no plan or certainty as to what I should expect was daunting to say the...
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