Hello! The Bruckner Family is going to Costa Rica for 10 months! Why? To get to learn about a new culture, improve our Spanish, and find ways to serve. Devin and Luke will be working on some remote work projects, and Ethan and Cora will be going to a bilingual school, mainly in Spanish. We will all be taking Spanish classes and plan to be involved in a local church.
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- De mañana en ocho… (A week from tomorrow…)(This post was written June 22) We have nearly completed our time in Costa Rica. The near daily rains have sprung forth green growth from the ground all around. The weedwackers and horses are out on the sidewalks trimming back the grass and the cows can’t keep up with all the fresh green shoots behindContinue reading “De mañana en ocho… (A week from tomorrow…)”
- Return of the rainsIn April and May, we were blessed to have some visitors! We have all progressed nicely in Spanish, and I think we all agree Cora has the best accent. A lot of our time here has focused on improving our Spanish, and while at times that has felt frustrating, we are all a lot moreContinue reading “Return of the rains”
- Semana Santa y la península de OsaHoly Week in Costa Rica was in early April, and is a much bigger cultural deal in Latin America than in the United States. The community had a lot of events that we were sad to miss, as we were traveling until late on Good Friday. However we were happy to be in town forContinue reading “Semana Santa y la península de Osa”
- Day to day in MarchAs we near the end of March, we wanted to give a little tour of our “day to day” activities. Both Devin and Luke are doing various (remote) consulting projects over the time in Costa Rica. Devin has been working with a foundation she has worked with on-and-off for many years, currently looking at organizationsContinue reading “Day to day in March”
- Back in school and Entering the Second Half!Greetings from our abode in Costa Rica, it’s a cosa rica! (A beautiful thing). We are now into the second half of our stay, but still quite in the middle of things. While the first months had a lot of settling in, and the last months will have some preparing to go home (July 1),Continue reading “Back in school and Entering the Second Half!”
- VacacionesHello dear reader – we now present to you a brief tour of the kids winter/summer vacation over the past two months. The school year in Costa Rica begins in February and ends in early December, with most of December and January off for summer break. Here they just call it vacation. It’s the equivalentContinue reading “Vacaciones”
- Recently, Part 2: remembering Mimi, weekly rhythms, local relationshipsWe learned a little over a month ago now that Devin’s grandma (Mimi), had passed away. She was a firecracker (she played tennis into her 80s), and smart as a whip and sharp as a tack, qualities that haven’t fallen far from the tree in subsequent generations of women! We’ll miss you Mimi! Until weContinue reading “Recently, Part 2: remembering Mimi, weekly rhythms, local relationships”
- Recently, Part 1: Tica fika, moving closer to town, and fútbol and voleibolIn Sweden, there is a time honored tradition of taking a nice coffee break with a treat in the mid afternoon, to chat with colleagues and friends. It has a special name: fika. Of course many cultures have a similar tradition – there’s British tea time, and if things aren’t too busy, this happens inContinue reading “Recently, Part 1: Tica fika, moving closer to town, and fútbol and voleibol”
- Manuel Antonio, Impact Latin America and getting more involved at school, in sports and churchAfter our trip to the Caribbean at the beginning of Ethan and Cora’s school break, we sent Devin off to Columbia for the Impact Latin America conference in Medellin! (She is the treasurer) It was an inspiring time of hearing from leaders of leaders from different Latin American countries in this quickly growing house churchContinue reading “Manuel Antonio, Impact Latin America and getting more involved at school, in sports and church”
- Tortuguero, the Caribbean, and mid semester breakEthan and Cora’s school is on the Costa Rican calendar, where the school year begins in February and ends in early December. Consequently, they are still in their previous grades and will move up in February (though this doesn’t mean much as far as content, as the main goal right now is to become accustomedContinue reading “Tortuguero, the Caribbean, and mid semester break”
Bruckner Year in Costa Rica 