It was a long drive yesterday but we arrived to the hotel. It is a nice hotel and we they had breakfast early this morning. The drive to the Community Service school was about 45 minutes. The project we do for the schools is making recycle bins. We started this in our Sitio de Mata project which is a rural village in the mountains that we do homestays and the families where the families make everything possible out of recycled goods (this village made the {recycled-bags CLICK-HERE} that the kids were given on the start of the trip to try and cut back on plastic bag consumption during the week). We have everything all ready to go and the MCDS kids do their part of putting them together with hammer, nails, and then putting a nice paint job on it. Mr. Woodburn and I were asking ourselves how many high school kids it would take to put 
a nail in and I have to say we were pretty impressed. If you have any work on thehouse that you need to get done just wait because we are sending these kids home experts with a hammer & paint brush.This is an interesting school we were at. It is called El Castillo and located at the other side of the volcano that we were staying on. Their guide Diego also happens to be quite invo
lved with the National Park of Arenal Volcano which also helps out this school. The project going on in the school is that they planted a couple hundred of trees on the school property that are all native and endangered to Costa Rica. This school and like many are involved in the environment and the kids get into the ideas of ways they can help. Now this very rural, fou
r classroom school will start a recycle project with the bins that MCDS built for them.
Take a look at the pictures. We have built a number of these bins and the idea behind the project is to see which school kids collect the most recycled goods and then we give that school a pizza party. This happens a few times a year.
We had lunch at the a snake area. Dont worry they were all in the cage and the kids got to see some snakes, frogs, and lizards. They even got to hold the large snake that some obviously opted not to but others got in for the picture.
The kids are on the Arenal Volcano zipline right now and they sound like a bunch of howler monkeys.
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