On February 16, 2015, Stix Together made a delivery to Escuela Playa Hermosa in Guanacaste Costa Rica. It is a great school lead by an enthusiastic and welcoming principal. The school is attended by children in grades 1-6. There is one shared classroom and the principal also serves as the teacher. Prior to the visit, Stix Together sold some used lacrosse equipment to raise funds for the school. We were grateful to be able to make a monetary donation to go toward teacher training and other school improvements. We also brought along school supplies and lacrosse sticks for the students. The kids were unfamiliar with lacrosse and were eager to head out to the courtyard to try out their new sticks. The younger kids had their own ideas about how to use their new "tools." They poked, they dug and they scooped debris out of a pick up truck. They batted balls and then held them on the ground as they spun like whirling dervishes. They fetched a frisbee out of a tree and chased away a cat. They balanced the sticks on their faces and then on their shoelaces. I decided there was nothing I could show them that they wouldn't eventually discover themselves. The youthful trait of divergent thinking is not learned, but is often unlearned as we age. There would be no growing up today and that lesson was their gift to me.
-Evan
-Evan
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