1. Sunshine starting at 6 am (even though it sets at 6 pm ERRDAY)
2. Gallo pinto. Rice and beans, take it or leave it, but warm seasoned gallo pinto with tabasco sauce and sour cream first thing in the morning -- nothing like the GP.
3. Fruit. Cheap, diverse, and EVERYWHERE. We've tried fruits this semester that I had no idea existed before: guayaba, guanabana, cas, and maracuya (passionfruit; I'd heard about it before but never tasted it). The cacao plant even has this delicious fleshy watermelon-tasting fruit enveloping its cacao beans!
4. Seeing people from this program everywhere, all the time. Basically, always having someone to go to breakfast with.
5. The hospitality and laid back Tico attitude
6. The stunningly gorgeous green misty mountains and jaw-dropping scenery everywhere
7. Watching Jurassic Park while living in Jurassic Park (also noticing that the beach-bedecked, palm-tree filled San Jose from the film is NOT the smoggy, mountainous, zinc-roof covered San Jose)
8. Walking through forests of bananas and heliconias to breakfast
9. Falling asleep to the sounds of cicadas and waking up to the sounds of parrots and toucans
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