I lived in Santa Cruz for a few months and am going back for more. Have a few questions... If I want to get involved in volunteering any advice on how to go about that? How about meeting other Americans, I literally did not meet any other Americans the whole time I was there. How about any language schools in Santa Cruz? Ways to obtain American books?
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water4health
Also a random question. Why is it that there are literally no golden retrivers in Santa Cruz? I understand that the dogs they use are a lot for protection of the house so they have the tough dogs but I tried explaining the golden retriver to people and they didn't know what it was. Seems peculiar that such a popular dog from the US isnt even known and there are none at all in Santa Cruz.
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paulywog
Not too sure about the volunteering thing, but I'm sure once you're here you can figure that stuff out a bit easier. What kind of language schools? You mean teaching English or learning Spanish? I'm American and live here in Santa Cruz, run a pizza restaurant. The rest of the Americans I know are either English teachers at private schools, or missionaries, and the occassional graduate student doing field work down here. Regarding the golden retrievers, I have a customer who has 3 golden retrievers named Jack Daniels, Bailey's, and I forgot the third one's name. CAn't help you much on the books, I usually bring a bunch down with me when I travel back from the states or have my folks send me a couple.
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