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