Dia Dos.

We went to the bank to exchange dollars for Colones, the costa rican currency. It was probably the largest bank ive ever seen in my whole life and we even each had to get a number to get waited on. There were probably about 20 different tellers and a huge lobby and we stood out like crazy because of our huge group. It was kind of tricky to exchange the money, but it went pretty smoothly and everyone got some Colones.

After we got back to school we ate lunch which was very crowded, similar to Bell Tower at noon during the school year at miami. We also had a meeting about what we need to do in order to pass this class, so Ill have some more intellectual based posts in the future specifically about bananas, coffee, and tourism. After lunch we went to CINDE, a nonprofit company that focuses on getting foreign investors to consider expanding their current companies into costa rica. CINDE doesnt do monetary investment because they want to improve Costa Rica as much as possible so its more like a group that tries to get US companies to put call centers and other places of work in Costa Rica. Their 3 main sectors are medical, (i have them written down somewhere ill fix this later). The company is a very good idea and ought to be very successful because Costa Rica is one of the most stable countries in Latin America and they have a wealth of relatively cheap labor. But being a small company with about 30 employees, including one in the US in New York, they are still working on getting their name out there and spreading the word about the good economic conditions of Costa Rica. Their website is www.cinde.org if you want to check it out.