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Costa Rica orphanage
Today was a very normal sort of day. I did what I normally do. All day. There were only a few things that were different from my regular routine at home in the United States. First of all, I went for a 4 mile jog UPHILL. This uphill jog was extreme. I am used to running on flat surfaces. There is much huffing and puffing while John and I jog and it isn’t entirely meditative like it is at home, but I’m ...
I have been putting off writing about the orphanage, but I know I need to do it before my initial impressions wear off from the weekend. It was the first orphanage I’ve ever seen abroad and I'm hesitant to romanticize it. There are some things that we encounter that produce an immediate and striking emotional response. Usually, when I write about these things, my initial impressions are somewhat different ...
Day two in La Fortuna began with waking up at about eight o’clock in the morning, like the morning before, and preceding to get ready, without cockroaches, unlike the morning before. “Nathan” was going to take us to see some other rental properties in La Fortuna, along with an orphanage. I didn’t realize that we were going to see rental properties, so I was a little confused, but I was rather glad too… I ...