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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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