Update: Amanda- Journal Entry Gratitude March 8th 2020
Amanda- Journal Entry Gratitude March 8th 2020
For this assignment I sent a whatsapp message to Mr. René and Eugenio García. Both of them have helped this project in many different ways. Cindy’s and I’s original plan was to go to the Q’ero nation to spend two nights and three days in. However, the more we calculated the pieces of the trips and got information about the price the more worried we got. That's when I decided to contact my mother’s cousin that works in tourism here in Costa Rica. He had also done tours for families in Perú, especially in the Cuzco region, where the Q´eros are located. I told him about the idea of the project and how our main purpose is to not only to culturally enrich ourselves with indigenous culture but also bring someone from an indigenous community back to Costa Rica. Eugenio gave me different options of communities we could travel to but the one that stood out the most was Huilloc. Eugenio told me he has a contact in Cuzco that can give us the tour and transportation to the community. Continually, Mr. René contacted me via whatsapp and asked to know for more information about the type of service we wanted. After talking with him Cindy and I decided it was best to change the original plan and not go to the Qéro nation but instead go to the Huilloc community. These two men have helped this project become more and more real by helping us out with information. Now it's time for me and Cindy to take the risk and organize a trip in a foreign country and I'm proud that we have the courage to do this.