We met at Biltmore United Methodist Church Saturday morning at 6:15 am, took a charter bus to the Charlotte NC airport and flew to San jose Costa Rica.
Saturday afternoon we were picked up at the airport and taken to the "compound." The compound as we called it was a church, the girls stayed in the parsonage and the boys were in the recreation room behind our house. It was behind 2 locked gates in downtown Tivas. It was not the best part of town, most places around us had locked gates and razor wire around their places. We had a meeting with Charlie, the missionary about what to do/not to do. We were not able to go out of the compound after dark, we could not flush the toilet paper, the showers were called suicide showers because there was an electrical thing that the water run through (so be really careful and wear rubber soled shoes in the shower), there was no air conditioning.
It was rainy season there, which meant that it rained every afternoon and evening which cooled things off. We picked our beds and got settled in before going to dinner at a church in Guadalupe.
After dinner we walked in the rain 2 1/2 blocks to the internet cafe and had to wait in line to check our email. It was a fast trip because it was cold, dark, and raining.
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