Author: Shelly Dean
Location: San Jose, Museo de los Ninos, La Carpio
The day started off with a pancake breakfast that a group of boys slept through. After our WONDERFUL breakfast everyone got onto our bus and we were off to San Jose. In San Jose we went to the childrens museum where we helped chaperone the little kids from La Carpio. The museum was huge and filled with the most random things that ranged from how to brush your teeth to animals in the jungle. The little kids had lots of fun in the museum and were screaming or running around us many times over. As soon as we finished our tortillas for lunch in San Jose we headed to La Carpio to try and finish up the playground. It ended up taking a lot longer than we espected and we didn't head back to the hotel until dark. The wall we set up in La Carpio was the biggest challenge. Atfter we got all the poles up, one of the wall slabs was too big. So after we spent a wonderful synchronized time jumping up and down on it to get it in place we realized that the slab had pulled the post in the wrong direction. So we got to play in the dirt and dig up all the concrete we had just poured and reset the pole. We then decided to shorten the slabs so they would fit better. This solved the problem and before we knew it the wall was up and it was dark. After a long day we got back to the maranon and had dinner rounded out with ice cream!!!
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Monday, January 1, 2007
Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz
Author: Cascade Zak
Location: La Carpio, Doka Coffee Estate, Piedades
Today I woke up knowing there would be a hard day's work ahead of us. We arrived in La Carpio early in the morning and split into different groups and got to work. The schoolboys and girls were all looking out the window and saying hello. At first we were both distracted with each other, neither being able to concentrate on working. The hole digging got a little tedious after a while, but it was made easier with the vision of the kids finally having a proper place to play. After a couple of hours of mild manual labor, we successfully leveled the ground from small rolling hills into a smooth round table top and started to set up the playground. Later in the day, we set out on a relaxing tour of the "world's best coffee plantation." Along with a million coffee trees (literally), the Doka Plantation had banana trees and a 99 year old coffee bean machine. The evening activity was a showing of Voces Inocentes, a powerful movie about the young Chava and his heart wrenching struggle during the civil war in El Salvador. Right now it is almost 10, and my foot itches. Goodnight.
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Location: La Carpio, Doka Coffee Estate, Piedades
Today I woke up knowing there would be a hard day's work ahead of us. We arrived in La Carpio early in the morning and split into different groups and got to work. The schoolboys and girls were all looking out the window and saying hello. At first we were both distracted with each other, neither being able to concentrate on working. The hole digging got a little tedious after a while, but it was made easier with the vision of the kids finally having a proper place to play. After a couple of hours of mild manual labor, we successfully leveled the ground from small rolling hills into a smooth round table top and started to set up the playground. Later in the day, we set out on a relaxing tour of the "world's best coffee plantation." Along with a million coffee trees (literally), the Doka Plantation had banana trees and a 99 year old coffee bean machine. The evening activity was a showing of Voces Inocentes, a powerful movie about the young Chava and his heart wrenching struggle during the civil war in El Salvador. Right now it is almost 10, and my foot itches. Goodnight.
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