Welcome to WFS CASA 2019!!!--with added pictures
It has been a busy first couple days here in Athenas, Costa Rica. After flying in without difficulties we were picked up by Mr. Rivera and driven to our CASA casa: https://www.google.com/maps/@9.9618985,-84.4487547,2759m/data=!3m1!1e3
It is the one named "Forever Young B&B" and is also linked to Quienta Siempre B&B a little lower on the map. It looks out over rolling hills onto the Pacific Ocean in the distance. The boys have availed themselves of the ping pong as well as the pool. there is a picture of breakfast to the right:
To wash away the worries of travel.
Yesterday we visited the High School in town where we will be doing part of our volunteer and I discovered that perhaps youth is wasted on the young. The boys made a big splash with the students, but our boys were perhaps a little gun shy and stayed amongst themselves. Mr. Rivera and I will work on getting them out of their shells.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Liceo+de+Atenas+Martha+Mirambell+Uma%C3%B1a/@9.9756346,-84.3767068,536m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8fa0511a2755e1c9:0x4d1129ef344abd23!8m2!3d9.9760122!4d-84.3772336
The afternoon was spent on The Amazing Race, where the boys were tasked with discovering things in the town. This went well and most of the boys got back to the meeting point before the skies opened up--sorry no pictures were taken.
The evening brought us a small pitch soccer match with some some locals joining us. Philip Sadler led the charge for one side. I even joined in, and I am not feeling too much the worse now on the next day, although at my age it is often the next-next day that does me in....
As you can see my photo taking skills have something to be desired, but it was from the pitch itself. I will be incorporating more of the students' pictures as the days go by, and I hope to have a google drive folder with many more photos available for parents.
We are off again today to more volunteer work, and I will update tomorrow morning.
--navitsky
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