Sooooo I'm here in Costa Rica! Things are fantastic, I never even imagined it would be this cool. We've already experienced so many amazing things in the rainforest and out...We spent the first night in San Jose and got a chance to go out and have a great time with some ticos and a little spice girl love and then headed down to La Selva, a nature preserve, and have been getting oriented to life in the jungle. We've seen pecuries (wild boars) and tons of howler monkeys and a too many face size insects and just a million other things. This is so my scene! I'll post some pictures as soon as I can, I already have some great ones of huge spiders. I also just found out that I can recieve mail so please send me some!!! The people on my trip are amazing, we all are getting along pretty well...we played our first soccer game today *ps I miss the BJ's good luck girls!!* and I'm leading a yoga class tonight obviously! I miss you all and I hope you check in soon because some outside contact would be awesome...the newsweeks in the library are all from 2002! Alright that's about all I have time for... pictures next time I promise and get working on a postcard!!

<3 Stephi

Stephanie Shumsky
Organizacion para estudios tropicales
PO Box 676'2050 San Pedro, Montes de oca
San Jose, Costa Rica. Central America

Almost Away!

Hey everybody...this is my first post and hopefully is enough to get you all to come back in a few days when I'm actually in Costa Rica. I'm crazy crazy excited and trying to pack up my life a little before I go. Summertime was amazing, I learned so much and went a million places and got to see tons of people and I really can't believe its over.

Please comment and check back soon so we can keep in touch, I'm not sure how much access to email I'll have but I'll do my best!

<3 Stephi

ps. I bought a return ticket finally...so I'm probably coming home!