Our volunteer work today was painting the common room walls brighter colors than the standard hospital cream color. We painted one wall blue and the other paradise green. It was hard work, and took all 4 hours, but in the end the room looked alot brighter and we got lots of compliments.
Later in the afternoon we went to an HIV home for a dance performance by a group of students from a university in San Jose. They did a combination of salsa, meringue, and other stuff we couldn't identify, but they were really good. The HIV home seemed very pleasant, although the occupants looked pretty weak and sick. We then decided to go to a mall called TerraMall where Allan our driver drove us to.
On the way to the mall, we went by the university to drop off the dancers, and got to talk to Allan much more than we had been able to before. He seemed very nice and liked his job. The mall itself was really fancy. We walked in and saw stores like Kenneth Cole, Mont Blanc, and Tommy Hilfiger. Our original plan was to see a Costa Rican movie, called Carribe, but found out they didn't have subtitles, so we ate some pizza (mmmm..) and walked around the mall a bit. To get home we caught a cab, and told the driver to take us "near the Basilica", since they don't have street names or house numbers here.
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