Study Abroad Program Review of Centro Panamericano de Idiomas (CPI): Heredia - CPI Language Center

Submitted by George (Spanish,New Mexico State University) on July 10th, 2009

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Personal Information

Participation Year:

2009

Term:

Summer

Academics Overall

**Overall educational experience:

**Comment:

As above, I feel I was placed appropriately and challenged in both of my classes.

Language Overall

**Language acquisition improvement?

**Comment:

I am self taught so had to 'unlearn' some past bad habits while pressing on to increase my knowledge of the language. This was a great foundation - the rest is up to me!

Host Country Program Administration Overall

**On-site administration of your program:

**Please explain the program's strengths and weaknesses:

I was very pleased with CPI admin IN Costa Rica. My friend and I had considerable problems with their US representative, however. Had I not clarified things with NMSU rep, I might have cancelled. My friend had further problems in Flamingo with material that did not get handled properly by the US rep prior to our departure.

Housing Overall

**Housing satisfaction:

**Comment:

Apartments were very good.

Food Overall

**Food satisfaction:

Safety and Health Overall

**Safety:

**Comment:

Roads are narrow and young drivers extremely irresponsible- I was injured jumping away from a car on narrow road at night in Flamingo. Some streets in San Joaquin are dimly lit - students should be told to exercise caution.

Money Overall

**How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?

General Assessment Overall

**Words of wisdom:

Stay in a home stay to maximize continuous use of Spanish all day. After classes, most students revert to English due to varying levels of proficiency.

**Overall satisfaction with your study abroad experience:

**Was your study abroad experience worthwhile?

Yes. Definitely helped to improve my Spanish. It would have helped for CPI to have more computers available, not just for e mail but to do the required journals for NMSU. And, it was virtually impossible to attach and send these via the NMSU e mail system - I ended up using Yahoo to get this done.

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Study Abroad Program Review of Centro Panamericano de Idiomas (CPI): Heredia - CPI Language Center

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