{"id":18273,"date":"2023-01-16T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=18273"},"modified":"2023-03-09T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:22:04","slug":"two-weeks-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2023\/01\/16\/two-weeks-in-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Two weeks in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a graduate student, I didn\u2019t think that I would get the chance to study abroad again, so I was very excited for the opportunity to spend two weeks learning about social justice and human rights in Costa Rica\u00a0over\u00a0winter break. We started the program with an excursion to\u00a0Tortuguero\u00a0National Park, where we were woken up every morning by\u00a0the sound of\u00a0howler monkeys and ate 12 grapes at midnight for\u00a0good luck in\u00a0the new year. It was then time to return by boat and\u00a0bus to our homestays in San Jose, and for the class portion of\u00a0the\u00a0program to begin. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tortuguero National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One day, instead of our normal morning Spanish class, we had two site visits to locations in the city. The first was The House of Mary Help of Christians, which houses a museum for Sr. Maria Romero Meneses, an important religious and social figure who was the first person from Central American to be beatified. The organization also provides social services such as a clinic for undocumented immigrants not covered under the national healthcare system, housing for teen girls with unsafe home lives, and educational and vocational classes for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Inter\u2011American Court of Human Rights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second was the location I was most excited to visit, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.\u00a0The court was\u00a0created by the\u00a0American Convention on Human Rights\u00a0and is one of three human rights tribunals in the world along with the\u00a0African Court of Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights\u00a0and the European Court of Human Rights. The court was not currently in session, so we were able to get a full tour and see the courtroom up close.\u00a0While our tour guide was not able to disclose what case the court will take up next, all court proceedings are livestreamed on their\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the courtroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Looking forward, we will visit a low-security women\u2019s prison and take a Costa Rican cooking class.\u00a0I\u2019m hoping we will be learning how to make Costa Rica\u2019s national dish,\u00a0gallo\u00a0pinto<\/em>, so that I can make it after I return home.
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Learn more about this blogger\u2019s study abroad program:<\/strong> Social Justice, Human Rights and Narratives in Costa Rica<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a graduate student, I didn\u2019t think that I would get the chance to study abroad again, so I was very excited for the opportunity to spend two weeks learning about social justice and human rights in Costa Rica\u00a0over\u00a0winter break. We started the program with an excursion to\u00a0Tortuguero\u00a0National Park, where we were woken up every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-18273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-costa-rica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18273"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18470,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273\/revisions\/18470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}