Saludos y'all from the Program Director's office!

Things are a little too tranquilo here, so make sure you do your part and tell your friends and family about us so that your favorite instructors are busy guiding courses instead of bothering me in my office and stealing my pens.

It's a new year, and I am excited to tell everyone about a few new developments my office is implementing to improve future courses:

One: We are constructing our own sauna on the Tres Rios base so we can offer the mentally and physically purifying experience to groups who don't have time in their itineraries to transport all the way to the shaman in Quitirrisí . For those of you who remember the base layout, the planned location for the sauna is the flat space on the path between the student dorms/kitchen and the instructor dorms right below the chicken coop, but the sauna we are building can be easily moved to any location on base.

Two: I am in the process on creating a new service option for groups who go through the San Isidro/Domincal area with an environmental engineer who lives down there. Our students can help him make what he calls "gray-water" treatment systems for the communities that will improve the water quality in the Rio General Valley. It sounds complicated, but it is easily done with volunteers who are willing to get their hands dirty and learn something.

Three: Between courses, the Fall 2008 Leadership interns have taken on individual projects to complete before their next courses. Among the projects are:

Reorganizing the field nutrition system for courses so that we can make sure students are more educated and aware of nutrition on expeditionary courses;

Implementing a more advanced environmental curriculum so students are getting a more structured environmental education while on course;

And creating systems whereby students and chaperones have the opportunity to convey their personal goals for courses.

I am very excited about the possibilities of these upcoming improvements to our program and can't wait to implement them on new courses. So once again, please help us out and tell people that they have to experience the unique and constantly improving courses that only CRROBS can offer.

Tuanis Tuanis,

Tom

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