It was a pleasure hosting you!

Hello everyone!

We hope you've all found your way back home safely and had time to rest before getting back to work.
Here we are finishing economic reports and starting our general report on the work done during the ToT.
I have uploaded a fun video of one of the ice breaking dynamics you guys did.
Hope you enjoy viewing it (ignoring the not-so-great resolution of the video)...

Excursion went well

We are back in San José after spending the day working at the beach.

The tour down the Tarcoles River allowed us to see some beautiful animals.

There was a chance for participants to identify environmental issues like the once addressed during the ToT. It was a practical exercise and a nice change of scenery!

During the afternoon the participants filled the walls of our meeting room with colorful information.

  

Check out our progress!!

Here at Indigo Hotel we are enjoying the interesting presentations of our participants, facilitators and guest speakers. After learning about the Ecosystem Approach and having raging role plays on the interrelations of the water use sectors, we are now learning about the value of ecosystems.

This afternoon we will have a case study session and group work.
Participants are coming up with great ideas and discussions.

See you soon!

Dear all,

We hope you had a safe trip and that you've found the hotel accommodations welcoming and comfortable.
Sessions begin tomorrow at 9:00am in the Rainforest Room in Indigo Hotel.
Registration starts at 8:45am so we ask you to be there early so that we start according to schedule

For those of you who are still in transit over here, have a pleasant trip!

LAST MINUTE DETAILS

Hey everyone!

We are excited about all of you coming soon.
Right now only ONE of you answered the question about dietary restrictions and/or allergies.

PLEASE THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO LET US KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING TO CONSIDER REGARDING YOUR MEALS.

We are sure your answers will just start pouring in.
Send them to ecoiwrm.tot@gmail.com

Logistics and other useful information

Dear all,

We want to remind you that there is a field trip scheduled in our program,
Given that the weather these days is warm during the day and rainy in the afternoons you should pack accordingly.
You should bring a backpack to pack clothes to spend one night outside of the city and clothes for the next day.
We also recommend you bring a cap or hat for the sun, comfortable clothes for that day's trip and sunscreen.

We will also take advantage of this opportunity to let you know we will have a closure ceremony on Friday 27th and then a dinner in a restaurant in town.

We will post further information about transportation and details about your arrival in a couple of hours.

We are looking forward to meeting you all.
If you have any questions about logistics please don't hesitate to write.

Visa UPDATE

Dear all,

After a successful meeting yesterday with authorities at the Immigration Department they have agreed to take the responsibility of issuing your visas themselves and then simply sending them to the Consulate nearest to you or in your flight connection. This will certainly mean the whole process is easier and it assures us that you will get your visas on time.

We need you to send your passport's principal page scanned to us if you still haven't done so. This is of urgent matter.

There are 3 different scenarios in addition to this that we were asked to provide for an even speedier process:

• If you have visa for the United States
• If you have visa for the European Union
• If you have a Japanese visa

In case you do have one of this visas please send a scanned copy of it as well.

We thank you in advance for your prompt replies. 

Travel arrangements and other information

Your travel arrangements will be made by Shirley in the Cap-net office.
If you wish to have more information about this please contact her at:   info@cap-net.org

We also want to remind you that the weather in Costa Rica is tropical all year round and therefor it is mostly warm during the day with chances of rain during the afternoon.
We will have a field trip during the ToT for which we ask you to pack a hat and comfortable shoes and clothes. The rest of the ToT will take place in the city, at a hotel called Indigo Hotel.

For a view of the site for the ToT click on the link to the hotel's web page: http://bit.ly/jCPSEc

Participant Form

Some of you had some trouble getting a hold of the Participant Form specifically so we came up with two new formats for you to access it.

Here are the links to it, first at a web archive:
http://bit.ly/iVehm8

And here as a google doc, if you use this format remember to copy paste the text and send us your filled in form:
http://bit.ly/kdRofi

If we still don't have your Participant Form please make sure to send it to ecoiwrm.tot@gmail.com as soon as possible.

NEW DATES!!! ToT in San José, Costa Rica: MAY 23-27,2011

We have new dates and confirmation so we are ready to restart the process for this ToT.
If you sent out your participant form and CV back in october you DO NOT need to send a new one. BUT WE NEED TO KNOW IF YOU ARE STILL INTERESTED and able to travel in the new dates. 
We kindly ask you to send a confirmation of your interest to our email account: ecoiwrm.tot@gmail.com


The application process is renewed as of now.