the last few days have been a bit hectic, a little crazy, but very eye opening and rewarding. last night we served a meal to the homeless in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica. unlike america, there are no homeless shelters, instead we bought supplies for one hundred sandwiches, with juice boxes and some cookies. the sandwiches just contained a slice of bologna, a slice of cheese, and some butter. after putting them together, we headed downtown into the ghetto and handed them out on the street. they came in droves as soon as we pulled up. we handed out 104 meals in about 10 minutes. as we pulled away two men started getting physical over a one of the bags. it was very revealing of their situation to see two grown men fight so hard over a slice of bologna and cheese.
today we spent the whole day at a church in a remote village about an hour outside of the city. we repainted 5 rooms as well as power washed and painted the main fellowship area. unfortunatly there was more people then work, but we were about to really push hard and get it all done just after lunch. after finishing painting, we traveled about 20 minutes to the worlds largest oxcart. afterwhich we came back to the church for a homecooked meal of beans and rice. over the last few days we have gone through about 5 buses, numerouse traffic jams, but life is good right now. i will get some pics up soon. peace be the journey
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