Up-date Information
June 2001
Population. We are presently 40 people living in Los Horcones; 20 community members(16 adults & 4 children); 7 extended visitors (mainly from México, U.S.A., Spain & Belgium but this changes); 13 children with behavioral problems who live here temporarily integrated to our special education program: "Teaching community model"( most of these kids have autistic behaviors and come here to learn).
Education:
Members have been meeting daily to analyze and discuss topics related to personal relationships such as self-observation and self knowledge, setting attainable objectives an gradually increasing our criterion , communication skills, relationships with people from the outside, and other important issues.These meetings last from one to three hours. Besides from these meetings, coordinators have been encouraging personal talks with each other to improve further our relationships. The center of communal life at Los Horcones is having genuine an satisfying personal relationships. The time we spend revising behavioral issues and the skills we learn are very valuable in Los Horcones.
Labor:We have plenty of work related to the summercamp.
The community children are fine, enjoying outoors and helping irrigating the trees and some other chores. They like piano lessons.
MUSIC- There is a music teacher comming every sunday now, the children and Busi learn piano and Carolina, Timo and me (finally!) learn guitar.
BABY- Busy is pregnant and we are all happy about it.
Construction:
We finished the construction for the special ed. chilren's dorm. We added a bathroom and two more rooms to the room in the laundry. It is really nice for them now with a playing area. We also made some more sidewalks one from infront the laundry to the ecology rooms and another from Fiens room to the Special eucation school.
Self-sufficiency:
HONEY- We just harvested 50 liters of honey form our bees.
Recreation:
Weather:
RAIN- it has rained three times now which is very unusual, last night it rained all night so everything is turning green and beautiful.
November 2000
Population. We are presently 45 people living in Los Horcones; 20 community members(16 adults & 4 children); 7 extended visitors (from México, U.S.A., Spain & Belgium); 13 children who live here integrated to our special education program: "Teaching community model" ( 8 in the residential program and 5 in the semi-residential program). Most of these kids have autistic behaviors and are being taught here. There are also 2 couples with a child who were hired temporarily to help in community work.
Education. A great deal of our daily work is devoted to education, both in special Ed and in the schooling of community children.
Construction. We have been doing some maintenance work in some buildings like the children's house, laundry and library. We are also working on the last stage of the construction of a section of 3 private rooms with bathroom. In fact two of them are already occupied.
Self-sufficiency: We already planted the first vegetables in our organic garden: lettuce, spinach, radishes, beets, and beets. The citrus season already started and we are eating the first grapefruits, oranges, tangerines, limes and lemons from the orchards. We are eating our own poultry and pork products. We continue to make our own bread, granola and yogurt, however the marketing of these and other natural products has been temporarily suspended.
Recreation: Some trips to the beach and the mountains have been organized. There has also been some recreational activity specially during week ends. Group activities such as riding horses, bikes, hiking, wall climbing, barbecues, etc.
Weather: Lately the weather has been colder and there has been more rain than previous years, but in general we have been delighted with the beauty of country says and sunsets.
Last up-date: Nov 15, 2000
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