Last year, as many of you living in Costa Rica might know, for the first time in almost 50 years, the 4th of July picnic was canceled. This was very disappointing to all of us that meet many of our friends there each year.
Approximately 3500 expats attend this celebration each year and many plan their [...]
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Private schools and a good education are not easy to find in Guanacaste. There is one school that offers the US Diploma and an American style education and that is Country Day-Guanacaste located in Brasilito, 400 meters south of Paradisus Playa Conchal hotel. This school opened up in 2000 and is a branch of the [...]
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In the better schools of Costa Rica, children are offered one hour a day of spanish instruction. They begin at the beginning for children that know no Spanish at all to intermediate classes where children speak a little Spanish. After one to 2 years your children can be bilingual and after 4-5 years they will [...]
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If you are considering relocating to Costa Rica with school age children, schools will be a main concern and more than likely determine your choice of where to live. There are many choices in the Central Valley, which is rich in educational options, offering anything from mainstream public schools to your American based private institutions.
Living [...]
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The children came home today full of candy with painted faces and high on chocolate. They had a blast at the school festivities in their honor.
This is not supposed to be anything like Christmas but I have found through the years that any excuse to buy presents for my children, I tend to go overboard. [...]
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TaraJon, Sladyn and Ronan are out of school for the summer and driving us nuts. I suppose all parents have the same problem that we are having with trying to keep them entertained. They want to go go go everyday but with John and I both working that is not possible. They have so much [...]
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If you have children, you will have birthday parties. This particular weekend we had 2 parties in one day at the same time. Time to clone the kids so you can make it to both without offending anyone. The thing about the parties here are that EVERYONE comes….the parents, the siblings and sometimes even the [...]
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