On July 22 I, as part of the Culture class of ULACIT, had the pleasure to exchange my personal view of Costa Rica traditions and way of been of Costa Ricans with a foreign person. All of this was done through an activity that Neli Santiago organized. The main purpose of the activity was that the person that worked with us guesses which was my patchwork quilt and based on that we discussed or talked about Costa Rica and her culture.
I do not remember the name of the person that worked with me but she was a lady from Austria. She was really nice and she liked Costa Rica a lot. Actually she was going to stay here for an extra period of time (after her trip finished), she talked with me about her foster family, she said that her “mom” was really nice although she did not speak English at all, so it was very funny and hard for her to communicate with her mom, she told me that she had to mimic everything. She also mention that she did not liked Costa Rica food at all because it is too salty or too sweet and she mention that all or the majority of our dishes has meat and it is funny because I had not realize that until the moment she said that. For her was very easy to discover my quilt, because I describe it and she just found intermediately, also my patchwork quilt it was the only one that had a lot of elements on it.
To conclude, I will like to said that this activity was very important because I had the opportunity to practice my English, I also had the opportunity to learn about other culture, to see the differences and similarities that we share. Something funny is that they also eat “arroz com leche” in Austria; she told me that they prepare it in the same way but they called it different. I think ULACIT should do this kind of activities more often because they are very important and we enjoyed a lot.
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