Author: Luke Suttmeier
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Costa Rica Week 5: Nature’s Fury, New Homes, and Adventure
Costa Rica Week 5: Nature’s Fury, New Homes, and Adventure Welcome back to another installment of our family’s worldschool adventure. Adventure is certainly an apt word, as Merriam Webster defines the noun adventure as “an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks” or “an exciting or remarkable experience.” When used as a verb “to adventure”…
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Costa Rica Week 4: Scorpions, Toilet Frogs and Howler Monkeys
Costa Rica Week 4: Scorpions, Toilet Frogs, and Howler Monkeys It’s hard to believe but we’ve navigated almost four whole weeks of our Costa Rican adventure. While some days are easier than others, we persist. And we continue to have close encounters with the wildlife here, for better and for worse! Ultimately it’s an adventure…
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Why Worldschooling? And Why Now?
Why Worldschooling? And Why Now? And what exactly is worldschooling? Good questions! These are questions you may have either asked me directly or wondered after hearing of our decision to ditch our “stable life,” uproot our family, and spend a year “worldschooling” in Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and Portugal. And since we made…
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Costa Rica Week 3 – Let the Sunshine In!
Costa Rica Week 3: Let the Sunshine In! We have just about made it through three weeks in Costa Rica, and things are looking brighter, literally and figuratively. Without giving too much away (you’ll have to read on to find out more), we have traded our cold, damp cloud forest home for the warm, sun-drenched…
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Costa Rica Week 2: Hobbits, Harry Potter, and Mud
Costa Rica Week 2: Hobbits, Harry Potter, and Mud We have survived our first ten days in Costa Rica, and each day continues to be a mix of ups and downs. Some things are getting easier (the homeschool routine generally, flexibility with food, familiarity with our surroundings) while some things remain challenging (the daily rain,…
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Costa Rica Week 1: First Flights, Big Feelings, New Routines
Costa Rica Week 1: We have arrived safely in Costa Rica, and our Worldschool year has now officially begun! I wish I could say that our journey so far has been smooth sailing, but that would be far from the truth. In fact, since we made this decision in early spring, life has been replete…
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The Summer Road Trip Review
The Summer Road Trip Review For those of you who didn’t know, our family actually had a different major adventure planned for 2026 before our decision to worldschool. That’s right, a good, old-fashioned family road trip! In retrospect, going on a rather aggressively-paced five-week road trip just after uprooting the family and moving out of…
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It’s Really Happening!
Here we are… Late August, the “dog days of summer,” normally a time to prepare for the return of classroom routines and all that. But instead of normal “back to school” worries, I am currently contending with some new and unique anxieties, centered around our impending departure from the US. You see, instead of doing…
