Oh Glory Day!!!

 The long awaited train between San Jose and Caratgo has FINALLY commenced! We now know this for sure because we actually took it!!!  Costing little over $1 (₡550), the train now gets you between these two provinces in just about 43 minutes. First train leaves Cartago at 5:30am and arrives in San Jose at the Estación del Atlántico at about 6:13am. The train then runs ever 30 minutes until 8:00am.
Since it's a commuter train, it only starts again at 4:00pm and runs ever 30 minutes until 7:30pm so don't count on using the train in between 8-4.

Getting to Brewha in these peak hours will be sooo much faster and easier now since these are the times when the bus from San Jose to Cartago can take anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours due to the INSANE rush hour traffic!

For any further questions about the train service or station locations, just ask us, or google it.. I mean come on... :)

World Press Freedom Day 2013

This year, San Jose is hosting the 20^th World Press Freedom Day International Conference hosted by UNESCO. This year the theme for the conference is “Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in All Media” and this year Brewha’s very own Jaclyn (moi) will be participating in the conference reporting and writing for the conference’s newsletter! Since my major in university was in Communications and Media Studies, I am very very excited and honored to be a part of such an amazing event! Also, now my dad is relieved that I’m finally doing something relevant to all that tuition money he paid, I mean my 4 years of studies!

 To read more about it, visit UNESCO’s page here!