High School Spanish Immersion Trip Evaluation

Thank you for taking a few minutes to submit your thoughtful comments about the recent High School Spanish Immersion program you participated in. We value your feedback.

Name and email address are optional fields if you’d like to submit an anonymous evaluation. We would of course appreciate the opportunity to follow up with you if you have some criticisms of the program just to make sure we understand well the issues so that we can work on fixing them. Thank you!

Step 1

Fill out the evaluation form. Please click on the country of your immersion program.

Ecuador
Costa Rica

Ecuador High School Spanish Immersion Evaluation

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Name (optional)

First Last

Email (optional)

Highlights*

What are the highlights of your immersion Program that you’ve been sharing with your friends and family? Please list as many as you like.

Challenges*

What are the challenges of your immersion program that you’ve been sharing with your friends and family? Please list as many as you like.

Language Learning Goals*

Please tell us how this program helped you accomplish your language learning goals?

Personal Growth*

Did this program provide opportunities for personal growth? If so, how do you feel you grew personally?

Host Families & Spanish Classes

Host Family Experience*

What did you like most about your host family? Is there anything that you did not like?

Host Family Recommendations*

Would you recommend your host family for future students? If not, why?

Spanish Classes*

Please describe what you liked best about your Spanish classes. Additionally, what suggestions do you have for improvement?

Leadership / Coordinators*

Please think through your day to day interactions with your trip leaders. What should they know (encouragements and constructive criticisms) about their interactions with you to help them be better leaders on future trips?

Alternative Hiking Activities*

While we were not able to go to RAC this year, please let us know your thoughts on our plan B- the 3 days of hiking you did in Ilalo, Cotopaxi and Papallacta. Did you enjoy it? Is there anything you would change?

Local Guides*

Think about your interactions with local guides. Mark Thurber in Quito and your guides in Cuenca. Do you have any comments or recommendations about your interactions?

Online Virtual Meetings*

Did you participate in any of the three online virtual meetings before the trip? Please reflect on those meetings. What did you like about them? What would you change and why?

Program Review

We need your review! Please use this space to write down a few thoughts about this trip that will help future participants decide whether this is the right experience for them. Copy and paste what you wrote and click on this link to paste your review on our website: https://commongroundinternational.com/store/immersion-trips/high-school-immersion-trip/#reviews

Other Comments*

Please use this space to praise (or vent about) whatever you’d like regarding your immersion program.

Would you be willing to serve as a reference for future participants thinking about the trip?

Yes, I’d be happy to.

No, thanks.

How should we instruct them to contact you?

Please provide email or phone # for people to contact you

Does CGI have the permission to use a comment or two from your evaluation for marketing purposes?

Sure

Costa Rica High School Spanish Immersion Evaluation

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Name (optional)

First Last

Email (optional)

Which duration of program did you participate in?

Two weeks

Three weeks

Trip with my spanish teacher or school

Customized dates

Highlights*

What are the highlights of your immersion Program that you’ve been sharing with your friends and family? Please list as many as you like.

Challenges*

What are the challenges of your immersion program that you’ve been sharing with your friends and family? Please list as many as you like.

Language Learning Goals*

Please tell us how this program helped you accomplish your language learning goals?

Personal Growth*

Did this program provide opportunities for personal growth? If so, how do you feel you grew personally?

Host Families & Spanish Classes

Host Family Experience*

What did you like most about your host family? Is there anything that you did not like?

Host Family Recommendations*

Would you recommend your host family in Santo Domingo for future students? If not, why?

Spanish Classes*

Please describe what you liked best about your Spanish classes at Lapa Verde. Additionally, what suggestions do you have for improvement?

Please tell us about your volunteer work experience.

Only comment on the projects your participated in.

Volunteer Work

Please reflect on your time working with kids at CEDCAS. What insights about that work have impacted you? What did you most enjoy about that experience? What did you least enjoy?

Excursions

Please comment on the excursions that pertain to your program.

Manuel Antonio Excursion

What were the highlights about this excursion? What would you have done differently? Do you have any comments about the hotel, the National Park, surfing lessons, etc.? Please comment here.

La Fortuna Excursion

What were the highlights about this excursion? What would you have done differently? Do you have any comments about the hotel, the hotel restaurant, Baldi Hotsprings, the adventure tour, etc… Please comment here.

Tortuguero – 3 wk. program

What were the highlights about this excursion? What would you have done differently? Do you have any comments about the hotel, the National Park, activities etc.? Please comment here.

Leadership / Coordinators*

Online Virtual Meetings*

Did you participate in any of the three online virtual meetings before the trip? Please reflect on those meetings. What did you like about them? What would you change and why?

Program Review

Other Comments*

Please use this space to praise (or vent about) whatever you’d like regarding your immersion program in Costa Rica!

Would you be willing to serve as a reference for future participants thinking about the trip?

Yes, I’d be happy to.

No, thanks.

How should we instruct them to contact you?

Please provide email or phone # for people to contact you

Does CGI have the permission to use a comment or two from your evaluation for marketing purposes?

Sure

Step 2

High School Immersion Trip

Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5

I learned a lot and it was a very fun experience.

- Rhys

Rating: 5 out of 5

I had a wonderful time in Costa Rica. During my time in the school my teachers were very friendly and always willing to help me with my Spanish struggles. The second part of the trip…

- James Kelley

Rating: 5 out of 5

My daughter did the two week Costa Rica trip and we were so impressed with how thoughtful every part of the trip was for the students. The first few days of activities for the students…

- Nicole Collins

Rating: 5 out of 5

When our 17 year-old son decided to do a Spanish Immersion trip during the Summer before his senior year, it did not take much research to see that Common Ground is the stand-out program in…

- Stephanie Garcia

Rating: 5 out of 5

Common Ground is a class act! Our daughter did the Ecuador/Costa Rica combo program and was away for over 5 weeks! She loved Ecuador for the culture, her host family & incredible site seeing experiences…

- Christina Garni

I loved the trip and I learned so much while having fun!

High School Spanish Immersion Trip Evaluation

Thank you for taking a few minutes to submit your thoughtful comments about the recent High School Spanish Immersion program you participated in. We value your feedback.

Ecuador High School Spanish Immersion Evaluation

Host Families & Spanish Classes

Costa Rica High School Spanish Immersion Evaluation

Host Families & Spanish Classes

Please tell us about your volunteer work experience.

Excursions

High School Immersion Trip

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