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A Sweet Start to a Bittersweet Day

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I started my day off today with a walk to the ocean and eating coconuts cut down by a friendly local, Raymond. The fresh coconut was a sweet start to a very bittersweet ending to our time in San Cristóbal. When we arrived at “el internet”, the San Cristóbal community center, the kids were already...

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Settling in at KACH

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text letter_spacing=””]This morning we woke up and had toast and hard-boiled eggs for breakfast. We then walked to TIRIJI where we worked from around 9 to 12:00. The two jobs during this work period included digging holes, which will be used for the base posts of the gazebo, and carrying large rocks for the foundation...

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Moral Courage

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Throughout this day we followed Sandro, one of the local tour guides through an organic farming tour where we learned about how the local people here in Rancho Verde use the environment to survive and consistently make food. Sandro is morally courageous because he took a risk by starting to become eco-friendly. He decided to...

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