Gift Sharing

When we were staying with the Borucan people they shared so many gifts of knowledge with us about their culture and life style. We had less opportunities to share our knowledge and culture with them so we gave them physical gifts. 

Each of us scouts chose one thing that either we enjoyed or thought represented us. Yumi made origami for them, Rika made bracelets, Devon brought Legit Buildable fidgets, Steven brought a craft for them to make, Huy brought Rubix cubes for them to learn to use, and I brought Anmore stickers. 

As a group, before we left home we asked what there village could use and they said school supplies. We started raising money and collecting school supplies just a couple weeks before leaving and got more supplies than we could have imagined! We left for Costa Rica with a 70 pound suitcase of school supplies and almost $1000 Canadian dollars to give them. We were all very happy with the exited faces we got when we handed over the gifts and supplies. 

They also gave us some handmade coin purses made by a scouts mom. They are made by weaving hand-spun cotton thread, often dyed with natural materials, into small, pouches. We were very happy to leave with memories and knowledge but the keepsake coin purses and masks we got to paint ourselves were so nice. After all we did with them from learning how to make tamales, to swimming in a waterfall, we hope they had as much fun as we did.

  -Hunter