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This is a Costa Rica typical dry forest tree blossoming.
It is green during the raining seasons and yellow flowering in the dry season.
Picture taken by Yuri in Guanacaste forest.
Memories & Comments of Students
In the way to Totuguero
About the course:
"I really enjoyed my experience with IHCAI. The course was incredibly well organized and relevant. I feel like i learned a tremendous amount. The teachers obviously prepared a lot for our course and invested heavily in our development. GRACIAS!"
About the family experience:
"Zulema made an incredible effort to ensure. That i had a great experience in Costa Rica. She treated me like her own children and was incredibly accomodating. I feel so lucky to was shared her home."
Student: Supriya Rajpal (Medical Resident)
University: Pennsilvania
Year: 2003
Program: P 010 A
One Surpirse on the road!
About the course:
"El curso era muy organizada y había mucho atención individual. Me gustaba mucho todos los profesores y tener diferentes profesores"
About the family experience:
"La familia es muy amable y me ayudaba muchísimo. La madre siempre lavaba mi ropa, cocinaba comida que me gusta y hablaba conmigo"
Student: Kathleen Cusick (medical student)
University: Connecticut School of Medicine
Year: 2003
Program: P 010 A
One of the Tortuguero natural canal.
About the course:
"This is an excellent course and i would recommend it highly to others! All people involved are excellent and very helpful and accomodating. Thanks for an excellent time!"
About the family experience:
"The housing was excellent and the family was very nice!"
Student: Angela Enos (Physician Assitant Student)
University: Pacific University
Year: 2003
Program: P 010 B
A party at Pachira Lodge.
Essay wrote in spanish by James Cooper the last day of the course, february 2003 (P 010 A - University of Connecticut):
"el 28 de febrero 2003
Kathleen...
Recuerdo que usted me pareció muy nerviosa cuando llegó al principio. Yo tambien estuve nervioso el primer día pero nosotros hemos cambiado por lo mejor. Pienso que su español ha mejorado mucho en la ultima mes. Pero la idioma será solamente una parte pequeña de nuestros recuerdos. Siempre voy a recordar que Kathleen se sentó a lado de mi y abajo de Jean cuando manejamos desde La Paz hasta San José con 9 personas en un carro pequeño. Y hemos visto muchas cosas que nunca pensé ser possible: el pueblo de Montezuma sin agua, un río en la selva por la noche y un volcan. Fue un buen viaje y quiero que pueda quedarme un poco más como usted pero no es posible. Usted va a disfrutar mucho y quiero escuchar a sus historias cuando regresa. Las historias son casi divertidas como la experiencia real. (Recuerde cuando yo le dije la historia de mi polaquita por la primera vez..."muy funny" como dice Yuri).
Por lo menos siempre voy a recordar que Yuri siempre pronuncia su nombre "Cat-leen". Muy funny."
Some groups of 2003. Evergreen, Tortuguero.
Email send by Marnel Bondoc 8/30/2003 (P 010 A - Midwestern University):
"Dear Dr.Tristan,
How are you? I hope all is well with you and our IHCAI friends. It's been two months past now since I was in Costa Rica, and even now I still miss your beautiful country, sometimes daydreaming of my days in San José and our excursions in Costa Rica. I was going over my recent rotation evaluations and happened to read what you have written about me. "Thank you" so much for the nice words and great score on the evaluation. I was pleasantly surprised and honored to find out that I got the "Exceptional Student" and "High Honor" awards. Dr.Tristan, I had such a wonderful trip to your country that these seem like the "icing on the cake" to top off a truly enjoyable trip to Costa Rica and a remarkable experience with your group. I am so glad that I decided to pursue this Costa Rica experience. I only wish the best for more success to you and for IHCAI. I also have some photos that I would like to send to IHCAI. If it's okay, I will address them "care of" Yuri and will use the following address: IHCAI Foundation Main Office P.O.Box 1677-2100 San Jose, Costa Rica I hope that this would work and that the pictures will bring back good memories of our batch. Dr.Tristan, can you also please forward this email to Yuri. I don't have his email address (I would like to have it) and I personally would like to thank him also for all the help that he provided to my group. Everyone appreciated his time and efforts. Again, thanks very much, and I hope to keep in touch. Take care!
Marnel"
IHCAI Annual Award Ceremony - 2002 - Dorothy Granada Awardee!
Traveling by land through Central America.
IHCAI Foundation has its headquartes in San José, Costa Rica, Central Americal.
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P.O. Box 1677-2100, San José, Costa Rica,
Tel: (506) 2227-6564 // Fax: (506)2226-3047
Email: info@ihcai.org
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