Well, we´re here! We arrived in Costa Rica on Tuesday at 10:30am to discover our bags failed to make the journey with us (they eventually showed up). We found Jonah´s friend who brought us to our apartment, which is in a beautiful neighborhood of San Jose called Rohrmoser. We took the rest of the day to get our bearings, get some food for the apartment, and figure our way around where we live and San Jose in general.
The following day we took all of our gear to the Rasur Foundation, the organization that we´re working with for the project.
After a long busride and a 3 mile walk in the Costa Rican humidity, we arrived at Rasur, which has a stunning facility. We took the time to work with JP, our extremely helpful contact at Rasur, to further our understanding of our camera gear and to conduct practice interviews. We were pleased to discover that all our gear works properly, which is a miracle considering that we carried all of it while traveling.
Today we are working on scheduling interviews and further developing our storyboard. Both are progressing just as we had hoped. Tomorrow we are back at Rasur to watch and perhaps film a nonviolent communication training, which will be an awesome opportunity.
All three of us are fast becoming more and more excited about the project as we move from our theoretical plan to more concrete expereiences.
Until our next update . . . pura vida!
Ned, Jonah, and Alex at 4am at Logan Airport, Boston, embarking on the project.
Our living room of the apartment in Rohrmoser.
Conducting a mock interview.
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Looks like a pretty wild adventure!
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