Please join us for a delicious evening of traditional Costa Rican food in support of the Class of 2017 and the Costa Rica Exchange Program at Greene Street Friends School. The Costa Rica Dinner is a favorite GSFS tradition – the 7th grade students serve solomente en español a fancy sit-down dinner to members of the GSFS community. It’s wonderful practice as they prepare for their eleven days in Costa Rica five weeks later.

The Costa Rica Exchange is a two-year program led by Spanish teacher Sandra Rodriguez. It integrates curriculum, language, science, geography, service learning, and social studies through communications with pen pals in the months leading up to the trip, eleven days in Costa Rica in March, and a visit from the pen pals to Philadelphia the following November.  The first class to participate was the Class of 2005, making the current 7th grade the thirteenth group that Sandra has led.

This year’s dinner is being co-organized by alumna and 7th grade parent Jessica Koster Baff ’78. “This is my favorite event. I have gone almost every year,” she says. “The food is wonderful, it’s a chance to get together and meet new members of the GSFS community. And I love supporting the program because my daughter, who is in the Class of 2013, benefitted so much from it.”

The dinner will be held at Greene Street Friends School on Saturday, January 30 (snow date is the following Saturday, February 6). To ensure that you receive your invitation, please update your contact information here.