Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Este fin de semana fui a Limón con mi grupo de LASP (Programa para Estudiar Latino America). Salimos en viernes a las diez de la manana despues de una charla con un pastor de Limón. La tema por el fin de semana fue la pobresa en la región de Limón y la descriminación a los negros. Limón está en la costa del mar Caribbean y tiene una cultura muy especial. Es diferente del resto de Costa Rica. Tiene el puerto más importante de Costa Rica, pero Limón es la región más pobre tambien. Durante viajando en viernes nos visitamos una plantación de café, piña, y banana. Llegamos a la ciudad de Limón a las cinco de la tarde y comimos en grupos pequeños. Me olvidé comer la comida especial de Limón que se llama “Rice and Bean”, y comí una hamberguesa. En la noche, con un grupo grande, salimos a bailar en un bar. Bailamos la Salsa por dos horas. Sabado fuimos a un pueblo indígena se llama “BriBri” y aprendimos de este grupo de indígenas y tambien de su historias y manera de viver. En la tarde fuimos a la playa en un parque nacional. La playa parece como una playa de los calendarios de paradiso con los arboles sobre el agua. El mar tenía mucho calor, pero esto fue muy extrano para mi. Pasamos cuatro horas en la playa. Sabada por la noche comimos con un grupo de estudiantes de la iglesia bautisma. Conocí a dos chicas quien son gemelas. En domingo fuimos a la iglesia bautisma y conocí a mis amigas otra vez. Regresamos a San Jóse en la tarde. Hoy es lunes y el quince de septiembre, el día de la independencía entonces no tengo clases hoy. Manaña voy a la embajado de los estados unidos para mi clase y vamos a aprender de la perspectivo de los estados unidos sobre costa rica.

This weekend I went to Limon with my LASP (Latin American Studies Program) group. We left Friday morning at 10 am after a lecture from a Pastor from Limon. The theme for the weekend was the poor in the region of Limon and the descrimination of the black people there. Limon is located on the Caribbean coast and has a very special culture. It has the most important port in Costa Rica, but it is also the poorest region. While traveling Friday we visited three plantations: coffee, pineapple, and banana. We arrived to the city of Limon at 5 pm and ate dinner in small groups. I forgot to eat the speciality of Limon, called "Rice and Bean", and I ate a hamburger instead. That night, with a large group, we went dancing at a salsa bar. We danced to salsa music for two hours straight! On Saturday we went to an indigenous tribe called the "BriBri" and we learned about the group, their history, stories, and way of life. In the afternoon we went to a beach in a nacional park. The beach looked like one of those beaches in calendars of paradise with the palm trees hanging out over the water. The water was really warm though, which was strange for me! We were at the beach for four hours. Saturday night we ate dinner with a group of students from a local baptist church (there was also live music and dancing after dinner). I met two 15 year old girls who were twins. On Sunday morning we went to the baptist church and I saw my friends again. We returned to San Jose in the afternoon. Today is the Independence day for Costa Rica, the 15th of September and so i don't have any classes today! Tomorrow my group is going to visit the U.S. embassy in San Jose and learn about Costa Rica from a U.S. perspective.

2 comments:

Jessica Davis said...

Tell me more about these twins! What did they have to say about life in Costa Rica? About their faith?

Can you post photos on your blog? Keep posting!

Grace said...

jess it takes a lot of mental energy to write in spanish and english, so that combined with all my homework is why i do not write so very often, but i will try to post some more. you know i am not a writer though!