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

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 Lisa, Caleb and Leslie. What should they know (encouragements and constructive criticisms) about their interactions with you to help them be better leaders on future trips?
RAC guides and staff*
Please think through your day to day interactions with the guides and staff at RAC: Mark, Carlos and Silvia, biologist, etc. What should they know (encouragements and constructive criticisms) about their interactions with you to help them be better leaders on future trips?
Should we offer the RAC backpacking trip again?*
Was there anything that you wished your had packed for the RAC trip?*
Your RAC experience*
Think about the backpacking portion of the trip. What were the highlights, and low points? Did you grow when you were out of your comfort zone? Was it too challenging or just right?
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
- No

Costa Rica High School Spanish Immersion Evaluation

Name (optional)
First Last
Email (optional)
Which duration of program did you participate in?
- Two weeks
- Three weeks
- Four weeks
- Trip with my Spanish Teacher
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.
Isla Tortuga Day Tour
What were the highlights of the Isla Tortuga day tour? Would you repeat it and/or recommend it to future participants?
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.
La Iguana – 4wk Only
How did your experience at La Iguana impact you? Did you learn anything from your time there? Please comment on the opportunity from both a cultural experience and a language learning experience. Is there anything that you would have changed about this part of the program?
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?
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 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
- No

Step 2

Please leave a review

High School Immersion Trip

Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5

Our boys loved their experience, particularly the time with their host family. They made a very nice connection with the family.

- Gina Wieser

Rating: 5 out of 5

This trip exceeded my expectations – the level of communication, pictures and care for my child as if he was your family put me at ease. My son had a wonderful time and said the…

- Kristen Linehan

Rating: 5 out of 5

It was overall a great experience. I learned a lot and grew in my spanish. I enjoyed the different parts of the trip and I like how we got to experience a little bit of…

- Simon Wieser

Rating: 5 out of 5

I really enjoyed this trip and I would recommend it to anyone looking to challenge themselves a little and step out of their comfort zone.

- Matthew Rabindra

Rating: 5 out of 5

Thanks for designing a program that teaches the participants not only about the language but also about the culture and encourages them to grow as people!

- Lisa Conzemius

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.

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