Simple life is a different way to live where all is easier than normal life.
There are different reasons, because people decide to have a simple life; for example, spirituality, health, environmentalism. Others may follow the voluntary simplicity for reasons of social justice, rejection of consumerism or simply because it is the way of life that brings them more happiness.
It is important to distinguish between people who have a simple lifestyle and people who live in poverty, because it is very different; there are people who decide to have a simple lifestyle and they have lot money.
This way of life in many ways benefits the health of people, because they have a healthy diet, do not have much stress, and they can do exercise.
Examples of simple life are the people who plant the most food, the women don’t use washing machines, don’t have electricity in the house, don’t have cars, they cook in wood stove…
Simple lifestyle means to help the nature, as this can prevent the destruction of the planet, if we continue destroying the environment we will have serious problems. As nature shows us with the floods of last week in all country.
I think that simple life is interesting and in part is better, but now it is very difficult to live because we are used to have many facilities, I don’t image my live without phone, internet, electricity, but I think that we should practice some things; for example: be careful the things that we buy because sometimes we buy things that we don´t need, also we should have a good diet, and of course we should care for our planet.
The tourism is one way to get money for each country in the world, maybe the most important source of incomes.
In our country, tourism is the principal source to get money, because our land have many beautiful places, for example: the natural views like Braulio Carrillo Natural Park or Chirripó mountain, in these places the visitors can see many different animals and trees. The beaches are other kind of tourism destiny in Costa Rica like Puerto Viejo beachf in Limón, Punta Leona in Puntarenas and Tamarindo in Guanacaste. The people of Costa Rica and also people of other countries love to visit the beaches because these places are really wonderful and for the people that live near the beaches, it is easy to get money because they can work in hotels.
Also tourism is the perfect way to know different places in our country or in the other countries; for me the best tourism destiny is the beaches of Mexico. In the future, I want to spend my honey moon in Acapulco.
We should preserve our beautiful places because it is really important for our economic, but also if we do not take care of our mountains, our animals, and our water we will have a big problem.
There are different types of storytelling, for example: listening to someone tells a story like Ana Victoria Garro, reading a book as: Peter Pan written by James Matthew Barrie, watching a movie such as: the same Peter Pan but directed by P. J. Hogan, or watching a play like Romeo and Juliet.
Also, there are different kinds of stories depending of the writer, for example: horror story like “El cadejos”, fantasy stories like Peter Pan and more.
Storyteller is a person who relates the story, may be one or more people who tell the story. These people have different techniques to can transmit the story a good way; they change their voice with the purpose to change the feeling of the story, they talk faster and louder to make the story more exciting, they use different voices for different character to show the audience who is talking, they talk slowly and softly to sound scary and they use dialogue to bring the characters to life. Also, the use of the oral expression as the movement of hands is very important.
I think that is important to preserve this tradition because the young people can know about the life of our grandparents; for me is very wonderful listen a grandparent tell about a classic story of our country, for example: “La llorona loca”, “La carreta sin bueyes”, “La mona” and other.
