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Dear friends and families of the students in Costa Rica,
          Today started with a great healthy breakfast at 7:30 with eggs, toast and great juice. We then went to the chocolate tour and tasted many different types of chocolate including 82% dark chocolate with mint and salt. We went to the cacao fields and saw how the cacao beans were processed and ground.
          After being here for 2 days we tasted many different juices all including pulp. Today for breakfast we had banana and strawberry juice, for lunch it was ginger lemonade and a hint of pineapple juice and for dinner mint kiwi juice with a dessert of chocolate strawberry and vanilla with cooked banana. After lunch we had a break and most people stayed under the canopy and played cards while other went out, explored, and got very wet.
          Then tonight we had class and got to experiment with bacterial growth, learned with Ibrahim and Silver, and got to watch 2 ant videos with Dr. Pinta (a scientist from madison, WI). Overall we had a great day and hope you enjoy this blog.

Sorry if we don't have many pictures we are having technical difficulties.

What a great adventure.

Love, Greg and Nick
P.S. Love you mom and dad<3


Comments

  1. gopack43August 4, 2018 at 10:05 PM

    Love you too !!! Great blog glad you’re having fun . The fresh juices and dessert sound amazing .

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  2. Jordan LaubeAugust 4, 2018 at 11:52 PM

    Food sounds terrific! Don't forget to bring some chocolate home :). Love to read this blog and know how much you are learning. Keep having fun!

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  3. UnknownAugust 7, 2018 at 1:30 PM

    Beautiful picture. So glad you are having a nice time.

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  4. pdweigelAugust 10, 2018 at 11:40 AM

    Nice blog, Greg & co! Looks like a fun trip. Hope you are learning a lot too :)

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