And that's the ballgame! My time in the San Vito and in the Peace Corps has come to a successful close. Today is my last full day before heading up to the capital to wrap up my service in the form of med exams, interviews, and paperwork in triplicate with carbon copies.

One last peek into my life here, and how everything wrapped up this final week....... I'll never ever forget this experience!!



My backyard

Last PC project! Giving a talk to parents about alternative methods to corporal punishment


María Celeste

Me and Don Segundo, the school guard and one of the people I'll miss the most from the school

My host family's home

Guisele, the school director, announcing my last day during a school assembly.

My good-bye speech

Final book club of the year! Here are some photos of our celebration...

After months of anticipation....finally, today 9 members of the book club went to San Vito's "Senior Home" to read poems, learn about the seniors' childhood and adolescence, share collages about their lives, and play bingo!!

It was a huge success- both parties left asking for the date of the next visit.

Scenes of Nature.

A stick bug! This little guy was hanging out by my front door as I was sweeping and surprised me... he's probably 8-10" long!


I was greeting by these cows while walking to wait for the bus the other day...



All on a Sunday stroll...

Arte por la Paz!!

5:30a.m.-5:30p.m.

Perez Zeledón, Puntarenas

So much fun!

Visual update on some of my projects....

Preschoolers listening to book club members reading aloud


They loved it! (and the suckers afterwards too)



"Art for Peace" group in front of our "tree for peace" mural in the school


Highschool ladies participating in an activity about leadership and what makes an effective/ineffective leader in the group "Voces Valerosas"


Book Club reciting a poem for the 4th grade class to celebrate "National Book Day"

A HUGE congratulations to my friend, Josh, who's 2 year project, the "Copa Indigena," (a country-wide soccer tournament with Indigenous tribes where non-indigenous and indigenous kids play soccer together while doing home-stays and cultural exchange) is finally coming to fruition this weekend in the National Stadium in San José! WOO HOO!! The event received a 3 page spread in the newspaper this past week. It's going to be great!