Fourth of July in a country that counts it as just another day.

Oh wow, what a fun day.

Well, we were on campus for fourth of July which is always fun to be on campus in the first place. During the first week of our project, during a card game of spoons boys versus girls, we placed high stakes that whoever lost would cook the other gender dinner one of the nights. Well, the girls actually lost, but as a great testimony to how cool our guys on project are, the guys agreed to make dinner for the ladies anyway (because it was really close)

We had so much food that I didn't know what to do. The guys were very creative with the food as well which surprised me.



A lot of our Tico friends who are either involved with Campus Crusade already or friends of people who are came to our barbeque and party that we had at the hostel.
It was a sweet time of fellowship, including swing dancing, and pool, and...

FIREWORKS!!!


The fun part, if you can imagine being in a different country for such an occasion, was that the town didn't know what to think of our fireworks. One of the guys that works at the hostel searched all day and found some great fireworks for the occasion.
So, after a round of the star-spangled banner around an array of food, we headed to a hostel nearby to light them off.

The town, however, like I said, was not ready for them and many neighbors called with noise complaints of gun shots. So our policeman friends showed up to make sure everything was okay. Thankfully, we had just lit the last round when they came, but it was definetely still a fourth of July to remember.

My stomach, however, had been acting weird all day and, actually for a couple of days after, so I had to call it an early night, but no worries, it was still so fun and memorable.

God Bless America!!!

Jodi Marie