My home stay family: Doña Erminda and Don Francisco. Coffee farm in the Upper San Luis Valley in Puntareñas, Costa Rica. I did my two weeks of homestay with is elderly pareja (couple), and they are the sweetest people ever. They have all together 12 children and around 40 grand and great-grandchildren. It's a traditional family where Don Francisco goes out to work on the farm and Doña Erminda takes care of the household necessities. It's a cute little house and the farm in the backyard has a trapiche, coffee plants, banana and plantain plants, sugar cane, fruit trees, etc. Doña Erminda kept the house really clean, except my room, haha, which she never ventured to clean while I was there...hahaha. She would spend the whole day cleaning!! And her grandchildren would drop by and the
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