Buena Barbacoa
Introducing Jacob Smithers and his first official post straight from the heart of the Costa Rican jungle… told you a new voice is refreshing 
~Haley
I have the extreme pleasure of teaching the Adult ESL class with Gerardo, not to mention all of our wonderful students. This truly is a fine example of Escuela Camino Claro’s success! The students all come prepared and eager to learn…Gerardo keeps things interesting and enthusiastic…and last class, things even got a bit delicious.
I’m not gonna lie, two weeks ago when we talked about having a barbecue with the students I wasn’t sure if it’d happen or not. In Pavones, many things are talked about and only some of them are done. It’s for this reason that keeping the community interested in schools and classes can be quite challenging, and it’s for this reason that I didn’t know if we’d be grilling come Monday night – to be honest, I didn’t even know if it’d happen 15 minutes before class! But, Gerardo pulled through and before I knew it he was setting up the barbecue (which I believe was a hub-cap with a steel grate on top, haha) and bringing bags of food into the school. I was so stoked! He asked if I could cook and I humbly replied that I could. With the help of Raphel’s friend from Seattle, Jen, chicken was marinated and salsa was made fresh. While class was being taught, the grill was gettin’ warm, and as the lesson came to its end the barbecue began.
Oh, and how delicious it was!
(My emphatic reaction to the tastiness of this BBQ may have something to do with my reduction in
meat consumption, but you can be the judge of that). Everyone went home with food in their bellies, even the coals took a few morsels of chicken for themselves – which was so tragic to Raphel and I, but what can I say, short of sticking my fingers in the coals you can rest assured that everything we could’ve done to save those lost men (a.k.a. chicken) was done. So this one goes out to chicken! And to Escuela Camino Claro, too, I guess! And definitely to barbecues – even if they are hub caps!
(yeah, it looks like a hub-cap) Coming soon, more from ECC on Pavones’ end… by the way I think we have a professional photographer on our hands. NICE
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