This Wednesday at school we had a guy come and give a really cool presentation to the whole school. I'm not exactly sure of who he was, what sort of business he came from, or where he gets the money to do what he does, but it was cool.
Again, I'm unsure as to exactly how this all went down, but I think this guy donated little flower pots, dirt, and pine tree seeds for every single one of the students and teachers at the school...that's like 170ish! He handed out the stuff, gave a short presentation on how to correctly plant the seeds, and then the kids planted their seeds the following day after the seeds soaked overnight in water.
Following this part of the presentation, we left the school and walked over to the nearby sports complex. On the walk over, the guy stopped us to look at some trees. He then explained to us that his organization had been in Rioja 17 years before in 1994 and that they had planted these trees. He showed us the before picture of him standing next to the trees when they were newly-planted...
And here's the same trees (and the same guy haha) 17 years later...
Pretty cool, huh? But anyway, after that we continued over to the other side of the soccer field and we proceeded to plant a new tree that he donated...this time a granado, or pomegranate tree. One representative from each class as well as the principal, the mayor, the town's one policeman, and some others got to shovel dirt into the hole to help plant the tree. In response to chants of "ALI! ALI! ALI!" from the kids, I too got to participate. CLICK HERE to see more pictures from the tree planting and/or to learn more about this guy's organization (if you can read Spanish). Now let's see if I can get my little personal pine tree to grow...
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