My friend, Ben, is from Atlanta, Georgia – like me!! He is my friend. He is from my mom’s school and he comes to my school to help with folk dancing and he helps to heat up the lunch. He takes us on trips. Last Thursday he took us to a campground instead of school! It was a lot of fun. We went swimming. Sometimes Ben gives me piggy back rides. When he took us to the pool I told him I didn’t want to get in because it was freezing cold! Ben took us to a movie to see Eight Below. After most of the movie went by everyone started running all over the theater because we were the only ones there. They got better seats. Ben let me sit with him during the scary parts. The bad part of the movie was this mean old leopard seal that came up and bit the best doggie and hurt its leg. Ben also took us bowling. We’ve had lots of fun!
~Maggie

Note from mom: I feel I should clarify Ben a bit…lol. Ben is a blessing from Evangel Community Church in Snellville, Georgia. He is here in Costa Rica for the summer to spend time with our MKs. He and Laura, an intern/missionary associate here, take the kids every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after school on field trips to the park, bowling, movies, etc. I’m not sure if we shared this before, but the kids are finished with school for the summer. However, they go every day from 7:30 until one and have a summer camp style day with lots of Spanish class. Ben and Laura help give them a little bit more of a fun summer feeling and help us have a little extra time to do homework.