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The moment the landing gear hit the ground in San Jose, Costa Rica, I came to realize three things: I was in a foreign county for the first time, I didn’t know a word of Spanish, and it was going to rain every day for the rest of the week.  While the rest of my Senior Class had taken Spanish for two years, my father and I were lost in translation, trying to communicate with the customs officials through their broken English and our shattered Spanish. I soon found that the language barrier was to be the least of my worries. Every day my friends and I woke to ominous thunder two hours before our alarm clocks went off.   It would set the s

There is a place where every day life is perfect. Husbands love their wives and children, lawns are pristine, and the sun always shines. If there is ever conflict, it’s always resolved peacefully, perhaps even with a moral where everybody learns something. But in this same place, just next door, there is unspeakable evil. It’s where men struggle to support their families, governments are corrupt, and people are tortured and murdered every single day. All people can do is watch. They sit and stare, sometimes crying, laughing or screaming. There’s nothing to be done about it because it isn’t real; it’s just a movie thea