Hello everybody! My name is Katherine and I arrived in Monteverde to work with FCCMT a week ago. The staff here has been so accepting; I worked with Erin, Lisa, and Adrienne previously, but I was worried about coming a month later than everyone else. Luckily, these worries were unfounded, and I was able to jump right into work here. So far, I have been making props, designing the program, and putting makeup on actors.

This is my third summer working with Far Corners, and I can say that Little Shop of Horrors is the most technically complicated show we have done in Monteverde. This is the first show with have actual stage lights. There may have been a reason for that, as we had trouble with the power going out every few minutes because the lights overloaded the circuits. Fortunately, we were able to fix that problem, and now the lighting looks excellent.

The show has been going wonderfully! It is great to be back in this community working with actors and parents that I met in years previously. My host mom saw the show last night, and this morning told me how happy she was that we all come to Costa Rica to teach theatre to the youth here. Comments like these are the reason that we volunteer.

-Katherine Szocik