Pura Vida: A Memoir about International Love and Growing Up

This is a multi-genre book outlining one eventful semester spent abroad, in Costa Rica. I was a shy midwestern daughter of recently divorced parents when I decided I needed adventure in my life as well as to get away from the drama going on around me. At the end of my freshman year of college I applied and was accepted in the semester abroad program. I left with visions of adventure, learning and service -something I would be able to look back upon fondly the rest of my life and something t...