We are here and we are well. We were blown away by where we are staying. It is called a Country Club but is more like a small camp. Tennis courses and pools and a great place to eat and meet. They are feeding us a lot of interesting things. For the most part we love them. It was also so wonderful to meet our hosts Alex (she's from Knoxville and has been on YL staff in CR for 3 years) and Randall(YLCR's national director). They are wonderful.
Today we started our work project today. We are working in a very impoverished neighborhood on a community center. The center is a place run by the government to give less a place for tutoring or music lessons or even ballet. Young Life has been building relationships in the neighborhood and the work we are doing in this building is helping in this process. We did lots of cleaning and painting and de-spidering. It is amazing how many local teenagers came by today to hang out and see what we were doing. It gave us all good reasons to practice our Spanish. Some of us are better than others. Haha
Soon...we will eat dinner and go to a Costa Rican YL club. We can't wait!!
You can see La Campina on Google Earth or maps.google.com at 9.947778, -83.994444. It is exactly 1,780 miles south of Maryville.
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