June 26th Blog entry

Author: Sydney Ledo
Location: La Carpio, La Promesa, and El Maranon
Today was yet another memorable day, which began with breakfast at the hotel's restaurant, and people seemed to enjoy the buffet's offering of pancakes and fruit. The bus ride was successful with David back as our driver. The children at the school in El Carpio greeted us with their typical enthusiasm and adorable smiles. While half of the group taught in various classrooms, the others happily lugged around heavy cement boards and dug trench-like holes. We ate lunch at noon and then left for a 30 minute drive to the women's center at "La Promesa". The women used to live in a community like the river community, but with their own work and the help of the foundation, have now been living in La Promesa for five years. This brief trip was a lovely treat. Here, we enjoyed lemonade and cake, were taken on a tour through the streets and shopped the handicraft tables covered with special jewelry. While all these activities at the women's center were really great, the best part of the visit was the dance party that took place upstairs. I was very sad to leave. We returned to the hotel on the earlier side to shower and make phone calls back home. Later that night we all gathered to watch the movie "Voices Innocentes," which is about the civil war that happened in El Salvador. Conflicts like this one caused many of the people who live in La Carpio to come to Costa Rica as immigrants.
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