Costa Rica day 5 photos- Reagan Sanders

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This Friday morning, we took a class on dairy products!

Our amazing instructor Tito, teaching us how to make cheese in the dairy products class

Everyone working together to make cheese.



All of the students listening to the instructions so that they can make cheese

The finished product of the cheese we made together.

Tito teaching us in our second class of the day, soap making

Our students decorating the soap they had just made with flowers they picked

                                               We visited La Fortuna Waterfall for a great swim!





We visited a sloth sanctuary which gave us great views of the Arenal volcano


A mother with her baby!


A male sloth scratching his head

Eduardo was our expert guide. We also saw two snakes, a toucan, and an owl!



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