Pre Limón..

Tomorrow morning we are meeting for our core seminar to talk about Limón one last time before we go there for the weekend. This afternoon I gave a presentation over the food and music of Limón at my Spanish class place and the other 2 students did geography and language. In case you didn't know, Limón is a province on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica and is home to a very large percentage of the minority population. Although there is only a 2% population of blacks in Costa Rica, 75% of people from Limón claim to at least, in part, be of Afro-Carribean blood. The food, as I learned for my presentation, uses a lot of coconut stuff and is very different style of the standard Latin American/Costa Rican dishes.

On Tuesday we had a core seminar over economics in which one of the LASP staff explained some of the major economic terms and kind of argued only from a socialist perspective (which is prevalent in Latin America) as opposed to a capitalist perspective. It was pretty interesting. In 2 weeks I have a group presentation in LASP over economics and we have to argue what economic system Jesus would support... I don't think we're going to argue from the perspective that the staff wants, but I think I prefer that..?

I guess this isn't really an exciting blog post so here is a picture of the little girl that I was playing 'rocks' with in the last blog post