Day 3... Tengo Amigos Nuevos

Written By: Alex Guy

Today was a very exauhsting, interesting, and definately a needed day. Today was the first of many service projects. Our group went to La Carpio, which is just outside of San Jose, and we started our prject. The leaders of the community had us start on smoothing out the roads and ally ways of the village. It wasn't the most excited time, but it definately felt good to give to the community. Mike and I both were assigned to a back ally. We had to smooth out an ally way and, being as big as we are, it was difficult to move around in the skinny ally way. Eventually we got to poor cement which felt good because it was basically like putting a finishing touch on a project.

The day was long and tiring. I got to play soccer with some of the Tico's, learn what poverty really lookes like, and serve a community i have never even heard of. It was a great day to be in Costa Rica and doing our service work is making this trip worth it.