As her husband and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spent the morning speaking with Central American heads of state, Jill Biden opted for third graders.
Biden, who has a doctorate in education and background as an English-as-a-second-language teacher, visited the Ciudadela de Pavas Elementary School Monday morning, where she was greeted by more than 150 children waving small U.S. and Costa Rican flags.
“I feel right at home in this school,” Biden told the gathered children, whose school in the western San José neighborhood of Pavas lacks both a playground and a gymnasium.
The school's director, Nuria Campos, thanked Biden, and a fourth grader, Juan Gabriel Solano, who read a short speech in Spanish highlighting the school's poor conditions and asking for a donation to build a gymnasium.
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