Last night around 8:30 pm, i started walking with my host family, and i kept walking and walking and walking, and 5 hours, 23 kilometers, and an entirely different province I was in Cartago, violating one of my most ethical values. I was in a church praying after chasing the virgin mary, or chasing the faith as they sort of call it. Even though, I didn´t see the point in walking 23 kilometers, it was extremely impressive. Imagine a quarter of the US. Population converging on washington D.C. over the course of 2 days and walking to annapolis. Thats pretty much the same affect, when 1.5 million costa ricans converged on the capital and walked to cartago. There were literally hundreds of thousands of people just spewing from the streets to Cartago, I´d never seen anything
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