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Everything You Were Wondering

To my dear followers:

I would like to apologize for the chaos. But as you may have already noticed from my past posts, my life in general is rather hectic, in a positive way, of course.

But now, the moment you've all been waiting for-- in this post I will actually explain to you the projects I assist in and their objectives.

Students Sponsoring Students (SSS):

(Need to make a website!)

La Paz Community School, located in Flamingo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, is a community based school, with a very wide diversity. The surrounding area in general is very diverse and the population consists of many expats. The problem with too many expats in an area is their ignorance towards the local culture. The school focuses very much on the integration of different cultures. 

SSS is a group primarily run my students in the secondary school that either plan fundraisers for the scholarship program or organize events to unify different cultures. The scholarship program at La Paz is very emphasized and distinguishes La Paz from other expat schools permitting people from all over to attend the school. 

The projects is timeless therefore has no specific goal, but the overall objective is to integrate different cultures in the school and all be able to contribute our differences for the bettering of our lifestyles.

Abriendo Mentes

http://abriendomentes.org/

Abriendo Mentes is an organization helping the development of local Costa Rican communities providing necessities, whether tangible or abstract, to those in need.

I volunteer specifically in the Women Empowerment group which is a teaching experience to women from the local community. With the collaborated efforts of the women and other expat volunteers innovative ideas are put into work in order to better everyone's situation.

Again, this project is timeless and the objective would be to empower and educate.

Blue Revolution  

http://blueazul-revolution.blogspot.com/

Blue Revolution is a group of people working towards a sustainable ocean by promoting responsible fishing. This is achieved by a series of presentations, encouraging buying locally, and discouraging any sort of economical support towards big corporation fishery industries.

The link above is the blog of a friend of mine who has taken over the Blue Revolution project. I work with her to achieve our goal.

Thank you. Let's continue working for a better world and we will succeed! 

Update for Thurs Feb 21

Alright. Here's a brief update on last week's happenings. (Again, sorry for no background info. I will write it as soon as I have time.)

Last week was filled with Valentine's Day events. I now understand why this commercial, Capitalist holiday is so emphasized-- because it brings in good mula.

SO, there was Candy Grams. A few people stayed at school on our half day (the things we do for the community...) and chaotically packaged all the candy grams. We stapled all the letters to lollipops, distributed them into different categories and made sure everyone received one.
We quickly broke even, selling each lollipop at $1. Success!

The dance- after all the fretting it turned out really nicely. Mostly La Paz students attended but there were a few kids from other schools (hooray!). Everyone was dancing and having a blast. There were no major issues and it all went rather well. But we didn't take that many pictures, too busy dancing...

The revenue of both events was good and most importantly everyone enjoyed...So much actually, that we're planning a dance for next month!

As for Abriendo Mentes there was a moment where I was very focused on SSS and Natalie with another thing that it actually worked out pretty well, giving us both time. Now, we're back. Gina, this other volunteer collected more recipes and I'm supposed to translate them in English.

"What is time" you ask?
I have no idea.

All I know is that I've been really, really tired and although I would love to focus so much more on these actually productive activities I'm stuck in school from 8-3. Yay!

I'll manage. I'm learning time management, I guess. Very valuable I hear. Let's see if I actually learn it.

Something also very important to recognize about my specific projects are that they never end. There will always be new ideas and things to pursue. The "goal" I guess would just to create sustainability and enforce service in general, there will always be a need. I think this aspect really adds to the non-stop-ness of these projects.

Questions or Comments? BELOW, Amigos.

I will soon post more. more. more. more. That's all it ever is anyway. MORE.

Good night before I explode in my writing.
Sleep well, Earthlings.