Program: ACE in Costa Rica

“En tú Sangre,” said Illeana, a member of the kitchen team at Casa Tucan, to me one night while I…

The yucca cutting stared up at me defiantly with its ojitos or "little eyes," daring me to plant it incorrectly.…

Growing up, sports were always the thing that brought me the most joy. Both my parents had been very competitive…

I find it difficult to reflect on two weeks' worth of experiences in a couple of paragraphs, but I will…

To the uninitiated, it appears to be a deceptively straightforward undertaking. Guiding a ball around a grassy pitch and kicking…

I have done service work before but nothing like what I experienced on the ACE in Costa Rica program. This…

I wrapped two hands around the end of an especially cumbersome log. On three, our assembled trio hoisted the offending…

I think one thing that was really surprising to me that I learned from our community partners was how their…

As I boarded my first flight to Costa Rica, reality finally hit me: I was en route to one of…

The ACE program in Costa Rica changed my perspective like no other. When my plane touched down in San Jose,…