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SaveTheMangrove

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Nature is life, so let’s take care of it!

Save the mangrove

Costa Rica is a naturally diverse country with some of the most beautiful ecosystems in the world, which are habitats to many species; but after the earthquake in 2012, and a ...

2021 Mangrove Update

It's 2021 and the mangrove is thriving!! It feels amazing to walk through the wooden bridge and see the green filling up between the dry trees that remain standing. The mangro...

Service: Project informational signs design

As I have mentioned before, the last part of my piece to the mangrove project is creating informational signs to place in the Avellanas mangrove so people passing through the ...

Activity: Surfing Matapalo

We had an exchange student stay in our house for my first trimester of 12th grade, her name is Gala and she was originally from Germany but was living in Curaçao before comin...

Creativity: Mangrove painting series

I am taking Higher Level visual arts in IB and for one of my projects, I decided to incorporate my CAS project. Since I was taking apart my mangrove nursery after it didn’t ...

Activity: Paddle Battle

I got third place in my category at the paddle board race this weekend! There were many challenges but I am so proud I finished the 7.5km!

Sustain

To make sure this project keeps going after I move on and leave La Paz, I can keep working on it after graduating and before leaving for college. Depending on where I go to co...

Biking and update on the project

This weekend I went biking with my mom through trails in Hacienda Pinilla. I hadn't been biking in so long because I had stopped for years and was only surfing and doing other...

Transformations

My project is transforming my community because it has brought awareness about the mangroves to them. The community members have begun paying attention to the mangrove develop...

Building my team

Sebas was the founder of the project and Mayan was helping him, then they passed the project on to me. Felipe is my partner and he’s supposed to help me with whatever ta...

First obstacles

The main obstacle for me in the project was working collaboratively with my partner because I like to work independently and hold myself to really high standards. Working with...

Getting started

Beginning to work on this project felt good because we had goals and aspirations that I was excited to work towards to and help the environment. Mayan and Sebas would also lea...

Happy National Surf Day 🇨🇷

Yesterday the president of Costa Rica signed that every third Saturday of October will be National Surf Day! In honor of the first national surf day today, here is a picture o...

Approaching the end of the project

To be wrapping up the project feels exciting because I have put a lot of work and effort into it, so wrapping it up will be a big accomplishment. I know it won’t necessarily...

Gantt chart

The final step of my project is to create informational signs to be placed in the Avellanas mangrove. These signs will inform people about the true history of the Avellanas ma...

Plan of Communication

After concluding the event, it is important to go back and reevaluate the stakeholders in my project. I went back to my mission statement and listed out my stakeholders. This ...

Stakeholder Map

Mangrove Explorer Weekend!

This weekend was my CAS event called the Mangrove Explorer Weekend in collaboration with ConnectOcean! Overall, the event turned out great and I will be posting more pictures ...

KanBan chart for business

Path questions

I have now started 12th grade, this was my first week back to school and it’s my final year of IB. For CAS class, we will work on creating paths for the Wonderment website. ...

Planning event

The rains have been taking care of watering the mangroves for me, yet many have continued dying in our nursery. On the positive side, the mangrove has been regenerating on its...

Wave painting

Painting

I recently discovered an artist I like, his name is Jonas Claesson. He draws and water colors animals surfing, and cool surfing landscapes, he also does screen printing which ...

Chichen-Itzá

Underground cenote

Top of Cobá Temple

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

This summer break, I traveled with my parents to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for 9 days. We stayed at a hotel near the 5th avenue, a super long stretch filled with shops and res...

Gratitude Letters

Hi Sarah and Ernst, Thank you so much! I appreciate the support of both of you at all times throughout the project. You both have been there for us and I am beyond gr...

Celebrating Bachi success!

Developing through CAS

Something I wasn’t very good at in the beginning of the CAS course was communication and working collaboratively. As I have spoken about before, I like to be an independent ...

Lionel’s Spinach

HydroNature

Coca Cola, ATL

Another surf comp

Update and upcoming plans

For the past 4 weeks, I hadn’t been working much on my project because it had been raining, therefore I didn’t need to water the mangroves myself. Something I have been th...

Açai bowl

Continuing from the previous journal entry in which I talked about my activity and diet, here is an açai bowl I made to start the day off well before school with energy and s...

My CCP club Planning

CCP stands for College and Career Preparation. During this class I have learned more about myself and what I want to do after high school so I have been able to focus on inves...

Spring rolls

Smoothie time!

Training

For this week’s journal entry, I decided to discuss about the activity in my life. I have been going to KOA, a functional training gym, for a while now. I go after school at...

Surf comp

On another aspect, last weekend I did a surf competition and I got 2nd place, here is a picture at the awards ceremony:

Trash in mangrove

Here is an image of trash in the mangrove, which made me really angry, and it just shows how ignorant people are because they’ll just leave it there. I couldn’t get down i...

Risk management in my project

Working with the environment can bring along many risks, here is a list of possible risks and what we can do to prevent them when engaging in the activities that are part of o...

Mangroves Felipe and I planted

Those are the mangroves we planted together (the orange ones without leaves) (they’re not doing well)

Writing Stations From Class

My schedule for the next 2 weeks: Water my mangroves every other day in the afternoon. Every CAS class Felipe and I will meet to plan details for our event and discuss next st...

A Wave From One Of The Best Surf Sessions Of My Life

Activity Over The Break

My parents and I were supposed to go to Mexico for a week during break, but we had a family emergency and had to cancel last minute. If all goes well, we were able to reschedu...

Digging Holes For The Mangroves

Planting Mangroves With Felipe

Last month, the river mouth closed up again. The tides had been really low and the ocean water wasn’t reaching the mangrove, and the sand shifted and it closed up. This mean...

Growing As A Person

My project right now is moving on a little slow , because we completed our collaboration with 5th grade and as an IB student I have been busy with school work so I haven’t b...

Tangled Mangrove Seedling Roots

Field Trip With The 5th Graders And Consciousness

On Tuesday February 26th, 5th grade came for a field trip to the mangrove. Felipe arrived at my place at around 8:45, and we gathered the materials such as shovels and prepare...

Taking The 5th Graders To The Mangrove

Working In A Team

Working collaboratively has its advantages and drawbacks. In a project like this one, where there is so much work to do, working in a team can be beneficial because you can ta...

The Team

My Heat Results (i’m Blue)

What I Am Proud Of

Although last week was overwhelming at school with so much work and stress, I decided to reflect and truly focus on the positive aspects. Last week I received a fellowship fro...

Vulnerability

Working collaboratively is one of the hardest skills to develop successfully for me because I always strive for perfection and when others don’t do their part or don’t do ...

Presenting To 5th Grade!

Website Run Through

This week, I revised my project website in order to assure everything was in place. I realized I have a clear explanation of my project, my mission, and future steps, but I wa...

What The Mangrove Used To Look Like

Trimester Goals

The main focus of this trimester is to obviously keep caring for the nursery, but also collaborate with 5th grade in their anchor/sustainability projects and start planning wi...

Update On The Nursery

Creativity Over December Break

I like to think of myself as a creative person because I am artsy. I love art and I love creating things. Over the break, I have been spending more time surfing, with my famil...

Surfboard Doodles

December Break Project Work

I’ve been taking a little break from school work this first part of break, but I have to work on my project over break. I have been checking on the nursery and watering to m...

Break Work On Nursery

Surfing

Part of CAS is activity; Surfing is my favorite activity, my favorite sport, my favorite hobby, my favorite everything. Surfing has become much more than just an activity to m...

Surfing Marbella

Ethics- Moral Relativism

The theory of ethics I was assigned is Moral Relativism. Moral relativism is the theory that two conflicting moral ideas/values can both be true because they are from two diff...

Presenting At Cas Night

Video Ideas

My team was lucky enough to have a video created by the Wonderment, but it is time to create our own. Over break, I will be creating my own video for the project because there...

Storyboard For Future Video

Cas Night

On Saturday November 17th, from 5:00-7:30 pm, we had our CAS night event. Half of my class, and half of the 12th grade class, presented about their CAS projects, and my team w...

Mangrove Gift

Project Overview

The goal of my project is to help the restoration process of the Avellanas Mangrove. After the 7.6 earthquake that struck Costa Rica in 2012, the coastal land rose about one m...

Mangrove Nursery!

Surfing Fashion

My biggest passion is surfing, so my fashion style is mainly bikinis and rash guards and sunscreen, and that's how I express who I truly am.

By SaveTheMangrove

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Finding and sharing peace

I find peace through the environment, and sharing my passion with others by planting mangroves to restore the ecosystem which is so important for the well being of the planet....

By SaveTheMangrove

Guanacaste, Costa Rica