Jesse, the sixth grade teacher, spent the past two years writing a musical about Monteverde. Students from the Cloud Forest School and the Monteverde Friends School performed it last night. The show highlighted some important issues here- imagining what the rainforest will be like for future generations, what it is like to be a waitress whose customers spend more on their dinner than she will earn in a month, trying to decide between driving a taxi and working on the family farm, etc. Hearts were touched and tears were shed over some of the numbers. Kaz was the Spokesperson for, and leader of, the Army Ants and Leaf-Cutter Ants (all fourth graders) and, in another number, served as a tour guide for a family of three in the Cloud Forest Reserve.
Kamila (in short, black dress) had an impromptu party after the show, and around twenty people crowded into her room. Everyone sang show tunes and ate fresh goat cheeses courtesy of Benito Guindon. It was a lot of fun.
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