Nkirote preparing some delicious Kenyan food!

Ciudad Colon, my Costa Rica town

Ross, the Fiddler

Hamish joins the party

“Not friends” he says… we’ll see about that…

Michelle gets some fifty points… game over for everyone else!

Father and son congratulate her… the apple doesn’t fall far from the oak one could say…

Attack of the birds… my little host sister Mari invades my room with her ugly chickens…

I wouldn’t hold them…

but I offered to help her name them…

hence, I called the first two Feo (ugly) and Culo (ass)

Mari, offended, named the third one Birta

Cooking for my hostmother that spoils me seven days a week:)

My hostmother and her granddaughter (my hostdaughter?)

Pina Coladas in Escazu!

El Pueblo… dance competition!!! What the hell was I thinking?

Does this really count as corporate social responsibility? To me, Corporate Social Responsibility is not necessarily about companies caring about saving the world… they may be all about profit for all I care as long as their efforts to generate profit are mutually beneficial to the environment and the people around. People’s criticisms focus a lot on how Dove is not really socially responsible as they will be generating profit but companies are also held accountable to their shareholders… when a company develops a Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, it does not mark the departure from being a corporation to being a non-profit, they’re mission is still profit but their harmful effects are diminished.