jose is going to go to san vito (near panama) to live with eilyn and she is going to help him get a job teaching english. he said we could go together for a couple of weeks this summer (december or january). maybe i could take a side trip to panama. danny and jonny have 1 more year of school and then they both want to go to university. danny could go to university at san vito because it's cheaper there. he wants to teach grade 11 and 12 math. he teaches math now to students in amparo. he's very smart, in math especially, he missed 1 question in what he said was like the costa rica math olympics and was chosen by his school to represent the school at an all high school conference. jonny would have to go to san jose to go to university because he wants to be a doctor. marcos is a nurse but he wants to go back to university to become a doctor. last night we were talking about university and how expensive it is here. ok i don't know how much it would cost in canada but they told me it is really expensive here. $1200 - A YEAR!!! jonny thought maybe he should study in canada because it would be cheaper - uh NOT! they want to go to university but don't know how it would be possible because it costs so much money and they don't have any.
i think of the $ a person spends a month smoking or drinking, burning it up, throwing it away. and compare it to the chance these boys would have to go to university. if one person smoking a pack a day gave up smoking they could send 2 boys to university here. who knows - one who one day may find a cure for lung cancer to heal his ex-smoking sponsor who put him through school. hey you never know what's possible unless you ask.
then there's moises, another little boy here in los chiles. he is 12 and has never been to school because his father is gone and his mother works all day. he stays home to take care of his 3 younger siblings. los chiles is the other village in costa rica where the team spends a week every march. he may never get a chance to go to school.
another school near amparo has teenagers in grade one because they've never had the opportunity to go to school before.
simple things we take for granted.
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$1200 - A YEAR!!!
that's it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's cheap!
i pay $230 per credit! a course is usually 3 credits, and for full time study i ight be paying for 15 credits... then double that because you are talking about a year.. so two semesters at CBC
it would cost about $7000 here, in canadian... and remember the american dollar is dropping... last i heard the canadian dollar was at about 82 cents
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