Ten Day Epifania School Spanish Language Camp
We invite you to bring some of your students to Costa Rica to study Spanish in a Spanish speaking country. Your students will experience the full flavor of the Spanish language while studying at Epifania School with Costa Rican teachers and living in the home of a local Spanish speaking resident. Our homes and families are carefully selected for their friendliness and the cleanliness of their homes. Your students will encounter Spanish speakers in all aspects of being in a Spanish speaking country, from the supermarkets to the local stores to the taxi and bus drivers. Come to Costa Rica for a different experience. This is a Program specially designed for Students and Teachers to enjoy their vacations discovering the beauties of Costa Rica while learning Spanish. You might look at this program as the ultimate field trip.
What is included in the Camp
The Ten Day Spanish Language Camp includes all of the following:
- 24 hours of Spanish Classes.
- Stay with Costa Rican family in your own private room complete with two meals per day and laundry service.
- All inclusive overnight tour to Arenal Volcano. See details below.
- Half day Tour El Tronco Waterfalls with lunch. See details below.
- Round Trip transportation- Airport/Home – Home/Airport.
- Unlimited calls to the United States and Canada.
- Dance classes.
- Cooking classes.
- Camp Participation Certificate.
PRICE OF THE CAMP
The price of the Ten Day Language Camp is $900.00 per student. The price does not include airfare. However, through our sister company Exito Travel, we may be able to make your air reservations for a discounted price.
DATES OF THE CAMPS
We are very flexible with the dates of the Ten Day Camp. The Camp is for ten days and nine nights and is for any time of the year. For example, if you arrived in Costa Rica on a Sunday, you would leave on a Tuesday. If you arrived on a Tuesday you would leave on a Thursday, etc. Our Camp coordinator will work with you on the dates.
ACTIVITIES SUMMARY
Following are the activities during each Ten Day Spanish Language Camp. In the days 2, 5 and 9 after classes all the students will have free time for their own activities. Our Spanish Language School can recommend tours or activities in San José.
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day 5 |
Day 6 |
Day 7 |
Arrive to Costa Rica |
Spanish Classes (4 hours) |
Spanish Classes + Cooking Class |
Spanish Classes + Waterfall's Tour |
Spanish Classes (4 hours) |
Spanish Classes + Dance Classes |
Arenal Volcano Tour |
Day 8 |
Day 9 |
Day 10 |
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Arenal Volcano Tour |
Spanish Classes (4 hours) |
Departure From Costa Rica |
STUDENTS PER GROUP
Each group must have at least 8 students. Each group should come with an adult or teacher in charge of it. For more than 16 students in one group, two adults must accompany the group.
AIRPORT PICKUP AND RETURN
Someone from Epifania Spanish School or our transportation company will pick you up at the airport and take you to the Spanish School facilities. You will also be provided transportation to the airport when you leave. In this case, the entire group needs to arrive to Costa Rica at the same time.
HOMESTAY AND MEALS
During the Spanish Language Camp, students stay with Costa Rican families. Each family is carefully chosen based on their friendliness, cleanliness and willingness to help our Spanish students. By staying with a Costa Rican family, you will be able to practice your Spanish Language as much as you like, while experiencing a traditional Costa Rican lifestyle. Homestay begins on the day you arrive and will end on the final day of your Spanish Language Camp. On arriving in Costa Rica, all the host families will be waiting for each student at the school. Then each student will leave with their respective families to his/her house. Someone from the family will go with you to the Spanish school on the first day of Spanish classes to show you the way.
While you are staying with a family you will have your own private room, breakfast and dinner and laundry service.
MEALS: Your Costa Rican family will serve you two meals daily, breakfast and dinner. Please indicate on the registration form if you prefer only vegetarian dishes and if you cannot eat certain foods. Costa Rica has an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables that your family will prepare.
LAUNDRY: Your family will provide laundry service and will change your bedclothes weekly.
HOUSE KEY: A front door key will be provided for you if you are over 18 so you will be free to come and go as you please. However, if you are going to be late or go away for the weekend please let your hosts know so they will not worry.
YOUR FAMILY: Epifania Spanish School is located in a residential/commercial section of Curridabat, a quiet suburb of San Jose. While we are located in a quiet secure area, a 15 minute bus ride will have you in the center of San Jose. Each family is selected by the Epifania Spanish School Homestay coordinator and will have clean, secure homes. Our families enjoy hosting foreign Spanish students for the experience of sharing their homes and culture and learning of the culture of the students as well. As the host family is looking forward to hosting a Spanish student and if the student is also friendly and considerate, your stay will be very pleasant and educational.
SPANISH CLASSES
All students receive 24 hours of Spanish classes in school facilities. Each student will be placed in the group appropriate to their level of Spanish. We have 6 different levels of Spanish: Beginner 1 and 2, Intermediate 1 and 2, Advanced 1 and 2. The groups are never larger than 6 students per class.
The class schedule is as follows:
08:30 am - 10:15 am: Spanish Classes
10:15 am - 10:30 am: Coffee Break
10:30 am - 12:15 pm: Spanish Classes
However, if the group wants, they can take Spanish classes at the following times. This schedule is normally used when groups of students wishing to walk or take their free time during the morning.
01:15 pm - 03:00 pm: Spanish Classes
03:00 pm - 03:15 pm: Coffee Break
03:15 pm - 05:00 pm: Spanish Classes
TOURS
We know that our students want to discover the natural beauty of Costa Rica. For that reason we have included in our Ten Day Camp a tour of a rain forest with waterfall and an overnight tour of a volcano.
Volcano Tour:
We will leave from the school at 7:30am will return at approximately 5pm the next day.
- Mountain Hotel: Arenal Paraiso. Their website is www.arenalparaiso.com.
- Location: In the northern zone of Costa Rica located 6.5 kilometers from la Fortuna Town toward the Arenal Lake, with a front view of the Arenal Volcano from every room.
- Duration: 2 days and 1 night
The Arenal volcano is a 1,633 meters (5,300 feet) high mountain, which is perfectly conically shaped with a crater of 140 meters. The Arenal is geologically considered a young volcano and the age is estimated to be less than 3,000 years. The local residents have also known it as "Arenal Peak”, "Pan de Azúcar", "The Canaste Volcano", "The Costa Rica", "Río Frío Volcano" or "The Guatusos Peak".
The volcano was asleep for hundreds of years and exhibited a single crater at its summit, with minor fumaroles activity, covered by dense vegetation. In 1968 it had an eruption and destroyed the small town of Tabacón. Due to the eruption three more craters were created on the western flanks but only one of them exists at today's date.
Arenal is considered Costa Rica's most active volcano and has been studied by seismologists for many years and although the activity nowadays is less damaging you can still see daily ash columns, underground rumbling, glowing orange lava flows and sudden explosions. With its perfect conical shape it allows breathtaking views of volcanic action in the summit. Almost every night the crater offers a spectacle of lights with its explosive eruptions.
The hotel has two swimming pools, one for adults and one for children, plus a Jacuzzi with temperate water.
Complimentary Wi-Fi and high-speed DSL internet access is available in public areas and there are two computers especially for the students.
Tour Includes: Private transportation, Bilingual Guide, Housing (4 students per room), all meals, and one night visit to the slopes of the volcano, if the weather permitting.
- Reserve Natural El Tronco
- Location: San Isidro de Coronado, 30 minutes from San José.
- Duration: 5 hours approximate
We leave at 1:00 p.m. from the School. Our first stop is to admire the beautiful Basilica of Coronado and his Neo-Gothic style, unique in Central America. Then we head towards the community of Montserrat until we reach El Tronco.
We start the hiking of approximate 2 hours in the reserve La Trocha, which is 100% primary cloud forest, where you can see variety of birds, insects, frogs, whiteface monkeys, a beautiful 60 meters waterfall and much more, and then enjoy a delicious traditional firewood lunch in our shelter.
After lunch, we travel to El Rodeo de Coronado, a cattle area where you will enjoy the unforgettable tour of a dairy, where you can discover everything about this business that for over 100 years has been developed here.
Tour Includes: Transportation, Tour Guide - specialized in Cloud Forest Nature, Hike in the Cloud Forest, Typical Lunch prepared in a Typical Wooden Stove. We are fully insured by the INS (Instituto Nacional de Seguros).
Recommendations: We recommend comfortable shoes and socks. Tennis shoes will be fine. You may want to bring a camera and binoculars.
CONTACT US
If you wish to bring your students to our school, please contact us at info@epifaniaschool.com or call us at (506) 2524-1726 or from the USA or Canada at 251-285-3049. If you bring 8 or more students, the teacher or chaperon travels free including Homestay, two meals per day, laundry service and roundtrip airfare of up to $800
Important:
** Every person entering Costa Rica must have a passport.
** Registration Forms and Parental Consent Form are on our website.
