By Alex WildeThis is a blog about our life in Coopevega, Costa Rica. Our house is small. There is no basement and no upper floor. We have no dishwasher. So in order to wash the dishes, we have to do it a special way. First, you have to take a sponge and put it into the soap. Then use your sponge and scrub the inside and outside of the plate, spoon or cup. Last, dry it with a towel. We have a washer, but we do not have a dryer. So we use a clothes line. There is a fruit in our backyard. It is named guanabana. There is also papaya and orange trees. The guanabana you don’t eat it. You squeeze it to make a juice. If there is no sugar, it tastes sour. But with sugar and milk, it tastes sweet. Our friends the Geerlings, Mr. John, Mrs. Penny Mary, Teresa and Catherine, live across the street from us. The Brubachers, Mr. Phil, Mrs. Lacy, William, Annie, Miriam, Nora, Lily and Andrew, live ten minutes away by the church. We have a pavillion in our backyard. It is called a gazebo. We love to play there. Our friends the Geerlings and us made a house out of wood. Sometimes cows get into our backyard. Our friends play games like, Landa [means Tag], statues, landa con helado[ Freeze tag], hide-and-seek, Costa Rican hide and seek, ninja, talent show, soccer, 500, baseball, keep away, bouncing, football, doctor in the dark, monopoly, monopoly card game, extreme monopoly card game,chess, bike race, a really fun game, climbing, legos, kings and Queens, cops and Robbers, and “Town”. The roads in Costa Rica are dirt roads. One day, we were on a bus. We were going up a hill with 20 mission trippers but the road was so muddy that we could not get up the hill. The bus got stuck! It does not sound so bad but we had to get off the bus and started walking back to Coopevega in the dark. We were stranded for 30 minutes. Then a car passed. They drove off to find people to save us! A car came and carried the Brubachers and us. Then they got a tractor and pulled the bus up the hill!!! We nicknamed it “DEATH HILL.”
On Saturday, we feed the poor. On this day, we go to Casa de Jesus and all the poor people get to eat food. And the adults have talks, so the kids can play games outside! On Sunday we do Noche de los Ninos. On every Sunday, we go to the Casa de Jesus and invite all the Costa Rica kids and do an act and then watch a movie! And we also eat bean empanadas and refresco. One time we did acts about Jonah. It went good. I was Jonah. My sister, Brecklyn, was a sailor. My other sister, Grace, was the whale. Chi yu was God. Catherine read it and translated everything into Spanish. I like living here!
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