In the beginning of 2020 I visited the indigenous Boruca people in Costa Rica, for one of their biggest celebrations: the ‘Baile de las diablitos’ (~Dance of the devils), where they reenact their fights against the Spanish.
Who would YOU be without CAPITALISM? This question on the website was instantly appealing to me, so I wrote a quick email and before I knew it a month of living in Intercambiamos had passed.
I took a late plane in Germany in December and the flight landed during sunrise. So seeing the lush greens in pink light growing on soft hills in Costa Rica, felt more like a dream than my reality for the next months.