We spent our last few days together with Witness for Peace. Friday we visited the Los Quinchos boys' and girls' homes for street children where we saw a new water storage system was installed, thanks to a donation made by last year's Nica group. The girls were incredibly grateful to have running water and they had all prepared handmade thank you cards. We also spent time on "retreat" at a beautiful crater lake to reflect on our whole experience, relax, and enjoy our last weekend together. During this time, we did some action planning and started brainstorming how we're going to take what we've learned back into our lives in the States. Our last full day was in Managua so we visited a fair trade store and had a meeting at the U.S. Embassy. Hopefully the folks in Costa Rica will have some time this next week to post more reflections on some of these things, but until then... thanks for reading. We had an amazing, unforgettable experience and have grown to appreciate so many aspects of the Nicaraguan culture and people.
Here's us at the school we helped build in San Ramon:
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