Costa Rica AA

2009 AA Convention in Costa Rica

The 2009 convention is over, it was fantastic! Join us next year... email Jennifer at the Mono Azul to be on the email list. See you there!

“Rocketed Into the 4th Dimension”

16th Annual AA Convention in Costa Rica

2009 October 23rd, 24th & 25th!

Spend a weekend at the beach in beautiful Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica surrounded by sobriety and good cheer!

For reservations and details, please click here for a reservation form.

You can also contact Bob N., Chairman, or Jennifer at the Mono Azul who will be hosting the event.

See you here!

15th International Convention 2008

of Costa Rica in Manuel Antonio

"On the Wave to Happy Destiny!"
October 24, 25, 26 2008
Come join us for fun, sun and sobriety

Please click here for Convention Schedule!

Great package: Only $105 all inclusive:

• Two nights hotel
• All meals from Friday night dinner through Sunday brunch
• Coffee and snacks throughout!
• Based on Per Person, Double occupancy

Registration before September 24: $105
Single occupancy before September 24: $130
After September 24th, add $10 to every package
Deluxe rooms $20 extra per person

Convention held at Hotel Mono Azul: www.monoazul.com
Saturday lunch & pool party at Blue Banyan Inn: www.bluebanyaninn.com

For more information, contact Eddy 011-506-2777-1898
Or Lu via email here or via phone here: 011-506-2787-5296

Registration Form
Print this page using your browser's print icon, one form per person

Name & Address:

Email:

Sobriety Date:

Willing To:  Speak ___    Chair ____   Help ____

Choose One:  Single Occ ____   Double Occ _____

Choose One:  Standard ____    Deluxe _____

Total Amount:

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Please mail registration with your check to:
Hotel Mono Azul
Apdo 297
Quepos, Costa Rica 6350

2008 15th International AA Convention Schedule:

Friday:

3-5pm Registration in Mono Azul Rainforest Restaurant

3-4pm Early Bird Meeting @ Tiki Hut (by the pool)

4-5pm Gratitude Meeting @ Tiki Hut

6pm Dinner Mono Azul Rainforest Restaurant

7pm Opening Meeting @ Tiki Hut

9pm Candlelight Meeting @ Tiki Hut

Saturday:

7-8am Spiritual Meeting @ Tiki Hut

8-9am Breakfast Rainforest Restaurant

9-10:30am Women's Meeting @ Tiki Hut

9-10:30am Men's Meeting in the upstairs restaurant

11a-3pm Trip to Blue Banyan Inn for lunch, swimming, viewing of the Monkey Sanctuary, Meeting in the pool!

4-5pm Speaker Meeting @ Tiki Hut

4-5pm Al-Anon Upstairs restaurant (pending)

6pm Dinner, Birthdays, Raffle, Banquet

7:30pm Meeting

9pm Candlelight Meeting @ Tiki Hut

Sunday:

7:30-8:30am Meditation Meeting @ Tiki Hut

8:30-10am Brunch

10-11am Spiritual Meeting

11am Closing

CA-AA Convention 2008 - The English Speakers Room!

We had a great time on Friday 21 March 2008 in our English Speaking Meeting Room. We attracted a lot of curiosity, and several bi-lingual AAs joined us through-out the day. There are A LOT of recovering alcoholics in Central America!!!

8:30a Social Time

9:30a Meeting:
Step 12 Service: Open Discussion
Led by Leo
10 people in attendance

10:30a Coffee break

11:00a Meeting:
Acceptance: Read page 417, Open Discussion
Led by Sara
12 people in attendance (including some of the bi-lingual AAs)

12:00p Lunch

1:00p Reader's Theatre Play on Traditions*
Followed by Open Discussion on Traditions
Actors: Barbara B, Sara, Jack, Kevin, Barbara A, Sally
Meeting led by Barbara A
22 people in attendance (including some of the bi-lingual AAs)

2:00p Break

3:00p Speaker Meeting
Dennis and José both told their stories
10 people in attendance (including some of the bi-lingual AAs)

4:00p Day over!

*The play is posted here. It is being translated into Spanish and will be posted on the site as soon as possible!

CA-AA Convention 2009 update!

Hi Everyone,

Below are directions to the convention and a schedule for Friday's English speaking meetings. It will be fun, coffee & snacks promised, $6 for all 3 days, hope to see you there!!! Will have literature, contact sheets and a meeting list there.

Sally

SCHEDULE
9am Step 12 Reading & Discussion
11am Big Book Reading & Discussion: story starting on page 407, Acceptance is the answer
1pm The Play, very clever play about the Traditions, less than an hour, discussion afterwards
3pm Speaker meeting - Speaker TBA

DIRECTIONS
TO DESAMPARADOS FROM ESCAZÚ:
• Onto Circunvalación heading east
• It is 6.8km from here to the big pond
• Keep following Circun. heading east
• Go under new under/overpass where Hipermas is (used to be a rotulo)
• Keep going straight
• After big pond on both sides of road, you'll see a sign for Des.
• Take that exit to the RIGHT
• You'll see another sign for Des. pointing RIGHT
• At the end of the exit, make a hard RIGHT
• You'll see a BK on your LEFT - it is 1.8km to the Des. church
• Pass a POPs on your RIGHT
• At the huge cemetery on your right, bear LEFT (follow the traffic)
• You'll have an El Lagar on both sides of the road
• Pass McDonald's on the RIGHT
• Bear RIGHT at gas station (you have to)
• Take first LEFT, you are now in town

Continue from this point:

FOR FRIDAY'S MEETINGS at Colegio Vocacional Monsenor Sanabria:
• Take first RIGHT just past the Guilá on your right, laboratoria on left
• Straight ahead, 3 city blocks, you'll see the Colegio at the bottom of the hill: blue building with red tile roof

FOR THURS & SAT MEETINGS at Villa Olimpica de Des (in Spanish):
• Go straight, you'll be at the parque and church on your LEFT in about two blocks
• At 2nd block past church, turn LEFT just past Importadora Monge
• At 2nd block, turn RIGHT just before Jiron
• You'll come to a soccer field on your LEFT: it is 1.5km from here to Video Kevin
• Just past the soccer field is the Santa Catalina Hospital on LEFT
• Drive thru industrial area, warehouses, then more residential area
• Pass 2 traffic lights, pass La Casa del Patty on RIGHT
• Road bears LEFT, goes over a bridge
• Mas x Mas on LEFT
• 3rd traffic light
• Mini-castle on RIGHT
• See Video Kevin on RIGHT just ahead, turn RIGHT just before Video Kevin
• At the end of this short road is a big black sign with white letters: Casa de Brujas
• This is the Villa Olimipica, bear LEFT to the building

TO GET BACK TO ESCAZÚ/CIRCUNVALCIÓN:
• Get on north side of Des. church, head west
• Gas station now on LEFT
• At fork, bear LEFT and go between two El Lagars
• Cemetery on LEFT
• Follow this road back to Circunvalción

AA Round-Up: Not in 2008

There will not be an AA Round-Up this year. We are focusing our energies on the Central American AA Convention coming up in two weeks. Stay tuned!

Meeting notice re CA-AA Convention 21 March 2008

Good morning, all,

There will be a short organizational meeting after tomorrow's (Wednesday's) 12 noon AA meeting in Guachipelin. The CA-AA organizers have given us (the English speaking AA community) our own room on Friday March 21 8am to 4pm to have any meetings we'd like. They do want a schedule for the program, so we are meeting tomorrow to hammer out a basic plan.

If you are out of the central valley and would like to claim an hour or be/offer a speaker, please email me and let me know. I will present your ideas tomorrow.

Last week after the regular 9am meeting, the organizers came and talked to us about the convention. They were very enthusiastic about having us be a part of the convention and about having us be a part of the Costa Rican AA population afterwards, to send representatives to Intergroup, volunteer in the office downtown - apparently they have many visitors to that office! So please be thinking of that idea as well.

This week, two of us will drive to the locations (there are two in Desamparados) and write out driving directions... wish us luck.

Hope to see you the 21st,
Sally

Two Updates:

1. The meeting location has changed for the Marina Flamingo Dry Dock group.

2. Christina cannot attend the Escazú group meeting this morning to talk about the upcoming AA Convention. We do have a complete schedule however, so we will go over that and talk about what we would like to do.

33rd Annual Central America AA Convention 2008

This is the schedule of events as of today in pdf format: Click here!

Update: Central American AA Convention 2008

This is different than the AA Round-up being held in May. This is the 33rd Annual Central American Convention, being held this year in San José! We, the English-speaking AA community, have been invited to participate for the first time. Here's what's happening:

Good morning,

Here's the most important thing:

Tomorrow morning (Saturday 1 March) right after the 9am Escazú meeting at the International Baptist Church in Guachipelin, we will have a short meeting to discuss our participation in the upcoming AA Convention. Christina Fonseca Calderon who is heading up the Central American AA Convention will be there with the treasurer of the group. And Leo is bringing Rafael as well. Rafael spoke at last year's AA Round-up.

Last Saturday, we had a brief meeting after the 9am to discuss our participation, see if we wanted to participate. We do, which is why we invited Christina, her treasurer and Rafael.

The Convention is 20-22 March (Thursday, Friday, Saturday), 8 or 9am to 3 or 4pm. Saturday night, there is a dance. The convention will be held in Desamparados (we are getting a map put together.) The cost for the convention is $6/person.

We've been invited to have our own room all day Friday 21 March for meetings and workshops. Things we need to discuss at tomorrow's meeting:

- Can we have a night-time meeting
- Our group would like to make a donation: how much? Should we pass a special basket for donations?
- What is their agenda?
- What will be our agenda?
- The consensus seems to be for us to have local speakers, rather than imported. So who?
- Do we sell their t-shirts at our meetings to help raise funds?
- What else?

Our basic organization group is: Leo, Rosario, Brian, Kurt, Sally, Kevin, Barbara B. Anyone is welcome to participate - please do!!!

We are anxious to have other groups from around CR participate.

Again, sorry this is so late. I have a lot on my plate all of a sudden and maybe someone else should take over announcements so they get out in a timely manner... If you are good on email and timely, this would be an important job to do!!! Thank you!

See you tomorrow. If you can't make it, please email or call me with your ideas and I'll make sure they are represented!

Sally
340-1429