1 week

My first week in Quepos, Costa Rica is coming to an end.  It has been a great week.  I have been meeting a lot of people in the community here in Quepos and also in Manuel Antonio(beach).  A typical day is waking up at 5:30am to read, go workout at 6:30, come back and get cleaned-up, eat breakfast, then we go over to the center(addiction recovery program) around 8:30am.  That time is spent reading, studying spanish and just enjoying each others company.  Pretty laid back, the guys are busy doing their daily cleaning duties.   Lunch break is right around 11am and is about 2 hours long.  We come back to Jared's to eat and hang.  We go back to the center around 1pm until about 4-5pm.  During that time there is bible study or learning spanish while teaching some english.  The program men have been busy doing a really big landscape project be the ocean in town.  It looks really good and I can tell that the men enjoy feeling like they are contributing to cleaning up the community..which they really are.  The area they are cleaning up is pretty dirty.  The area is where much of the homeless and addicted stay...also where the drug dealers hang.  God is truly being glorified on this work project.  There are men that were in addiction cleaning up the same area some of them used to get high at.  We have church on the beach!  There is a decent size gathering in a small cove where we have praise and worship and my friend Jared does the preaching.  After the preaching we took communion.  Just about everyone went swimming after church.  Jared and I played soccer with the locals for about an hour and a half.  It was hot and the sand was really hard on my legs.  As far as day to day life goes it is pretty relaxing.  I have been enjoying the free time I have to read a book a friend got me and also I am getting into reading systematic theology.  Signing out.  Bmacfosho