English Journal 1.3 : Costa Rica and William Faulkner quot Hello Italki community, friends and teachers. I met a special new friend from Costa Rica yesterday, and we spent a while talking about our countries and its heritage. Through our small chat, I have been astonished hearing about Costa Rica. At first, it is only fair to admit that I did not know much about the country, only that they have an amazing coffee and they speaking Spanish as every other Latin American Countries, but I did not know much about their culture, economy, education system or people. My friend told me that they do not have an active army, I wasn't aware - as an ignorant human being- that such thing is even possible, in addition to they allocate the army budget to their education system! How great could this be! I have learnt later that Germany also do not have an active army after world war I. They of course have cost guards, which they regularly catch tons of drugs on fishing boats, in my country this is what we called an army! even though, this is still a huge deal and I need to educate my self more about the history of the country with regard to this point. Costa Rica is a taxes friendly country, some called Costa Rica a Swaziland of Latin Americans countries! Many wealthy people have bank accounts their, beside their mansions and yachts. Mel Gibson - the famous actor- own a 30 million house in Costa Rica, which many suggest that house is the most expensive real-state unite their. Also, it is worth mentioning that the most richest man in the country is in fact the president, which he actually worth more than 10 billions USD. Costa Rica is not just a very beautiful country with long beaches on both pacific and Caribbean with tropical forests all over the place, they also very environmental friendly country. By 2021, all their energy will comes from a sustainable source, and they will be carbon neutral country. The amazing seashore pictures I saw, side by side with this amazing and courage people living on this heavenly land, actually remind with one of the most beautiful quot for the American novelist William Faulkner "You cannot swim for a new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the seashore"