Showing posts with label Jennifer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jennifer. Show all posts

Sunday, July 6, 2008

People

Living in a hostel is amazing because we meet so many amazing new people every week and day. For example, so far we have had a lot of fun hanging out with:

Molly and Jenny - two girls I went to high school with
Jennifer - organizes volunteers to work with a small Tico community
Shannon - writing her dissertation on violence against women here
Paulina - an Indigenous (Bri-Bri) woman from Costa Rica
Adrianna, Vlad and Meghan - vet students, with Vets Without Borders
Maria - getting dental work because it's cheaper than in the U.S.
Katherine - a Tica who has lived in the US and recently returned

This is by no means everybody we have met, just the ones who have made an impression on me. Also, these are only the people we've met who are also staying in the hostel. This doesn't even include the people I meet through my work, from the peace center next door to the hostel, the people who work at the hostel, through the Quaker meeting or through our travels.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Cartago and Orosi

We decided to go to Cartago today. It was the capital of Costa Rica a long time ago, before they switched to San Jose.



First, we decided to go to Orosi, a small town past Cartago. We got off the bus at a lookout and were disappointed to find out about all the things we couldn't do at this mountain-top park: roller blade, bicycle, and make "love scenes".

Orosi, from above


Now, in Orosi:

A town with garbage is a town without culture.

We should leave our children a cleaner future.


This church dates back a few hundred years.




Thanks to Jennifer for that sweet shot.








This cathedral, rebuilt in the early 1900's after an earthquake, is in Cartago. Thousands of Costa Ricans migrate here every August 2 to pray to La Negrita, the patron saint of Costa Rica.


Jennifer likes to bond with sacred statues.