Saturday, August 4, 2012

Final days

Today was a nice "last day" in Linda Vista. The group worked very hard on the project digging a ditch for the septic tank. Despite the heat, they persevered. Around lunchtime, we headed over to the school to celebrate our work with the community. Our home stay moms prepared a delicious lunch then we danced and played games with the kids. There was a piƱata that Jennifer did a great job ripping open! Rafael and Jessica battled each other in a cake eating contest and the afternoon was became complete with a soccer game. The rest of the evening will be spent with our home stay families. Tomorrow we will take a boat tour down the river to relax and see wildlife. The afternoon brings adventure with zip lining through the canopy of the rainforest! We will then have one last night with our home stay families and take off Monday morning for San Jose to catch our flight back home. It has been an absolutely amazing trip. This group and all of the fun and loving community members have made this experience. We can't wait to share all of our stories with you!

a little bit of salsa...


Happy Birthday Reina!


Thursday, August 2, 2012

With a little help from my friends...





On our favorite bridge after working on the project. Pura Vida!


Last few days of service


Our service project is a classroom for the community that provides access to internet, computers, technology…etc. The classroom can be used for research and studying. Our service consists of painting the wire fence that will support the walls and help from future rust. We painted the wire fence black to help blend in with the rainforest. Today we will start mixing the cement to begin pouring and creating the walls. The weather while working on this project determines what exactly we will be doing with the project. Yesterday was nice and hot so we all painted. The sun helped the paint dry faster. A couple days ago it rained so we did some wiring instead of painting. Today in the morning we woke up to pouring rain so we delayed service for an hour.  Since the rain stopped this morning we are able to start mixing cement and start building the walls up of the classroom. We have two more days of service left. We are hoping that the weather helps us complete as much as possible in the service project. On Saturday afternoon the entire community will gather at a local school to help us celebrate our service.  We may even have a soccer game.
Daisy

Wednesday, August 1, 2012










Working hard in the rain!