Pura Vida Service

I had a great experience on this program. Halfway through me and a lot of the others were sick, I think because of the food. I think that more options could have been given to us when this happened, we kept eating at the base house which ended up being fine but it would have been nice to have other options. I also felt like the packing list wasn’t totally helpful. I think it should have mentioned that we should bring pants we are able to do service in. Also it had us bring tank tops but we were not able to wear them for doing service. I think that it should have mentioned somewhere that there will be a lot of downtime so to bring chill clothes for that because I mostly just brought ones for service. Also maybe 2 towels instead of one and mention that they are for swimming and rafting, and that the base house will provide bath ones because that was confusing when packing. Finally the swimsuits, I didn’t realize how much we would be swimming so I only brought 1 but it was wet all the time. Lastly, last summer I went to Thailand and the rustic ties were actual friendship bracelets where as the ones here were just a piece of ribbon and some of them were too small. When we were sick, there wasn’t any medication like Pepto Bismol, the program leaders had to go buy some which we had to give them our money for. Overall I had a super fun experience on this trip, and I really enjoyed the memories I made + people I met.