35 Before 25: Go to Costa Rica

As an undergrad, I never got the study abroad bug. Everyone I knew went abroad somewhere, but for someone reason I was wont to rebut proddings that I do the same, and stayed within this city's smoggy confines to read my British literature. I can see my student loan payments rapidly approaching in the rear view mirror, so I figure it's now or never. I'm going to Costa Rica this coming summer, taking two classes. One is International Environtmenal Law, the second is International Human Rights Law. It's also supposed to include "a field trip to communities under environmental threat, and visits to local legal institutions and social events," according to the program's presently limited web site.

This trip affords me the following opportunities:
- spend a month in a foreign country, giving me a chance to master my conversational spanish
- see a rainforest, possibly get into monkey-related mischief
- cement a law school friendship or two
- possibly get my first tan

The only real obstacle is money (which is what student loans were made for) and the administrative stuff (getting the app in, getting my passport, finding a place to stay after my class time ends). I have uncharacteristically high expectations for this. It has better be fantastic.

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