Thursday, March 17, 2016

Only a few more days left!


We’ve continued to be very busy and yesterday couldn’t post a blog because we were away from any internet connection.  Today was our fourth and final day on our service project--painting the school’s fence and the basketball court.  Breakfast continues to be early at 6am.  We arrive at the school around 7am and work ‘till 11:30am.  Two days ago we went on a waterfall hike and on the way back we got to go for a swim.  Yesterday we came to the school at seven even though we needed to be there by 7:30 A.M.  We played basketball while we waited for everyone else to arrive. After painting we went for lunch at a sustainable farm where we took a walking tour and learned from a man named Daniel.  We saw how he grew pepper and vanilla by using a special compost he made with carbon, cow poop, pig poop, horse poop, calcium, and microorganisms from the mountains.  We mixed it together and it didn’t smell so good.  Afterwards we bought pepper and had a chance to see several toucans.

Last night the girls got together at one of their homestay families.  So did we guys. We had a lot of fun playing cards and playing soccer outside.  We are getting ready to eat lunch at school and later today we are going zip lining.  Everyone is really looking forward to being in the rainforest canopy!

~Shared by Kaden and Chris


At Daniel's Sustainable Farm

A view from our host community
Lots of chickens here in the countryside
A view of the basketball court before painting
Painting away

Getting close to finishing the basketball court painting


Black pepper up close

We had fun feeding the pigs and piglets

And giving water to the baby bull too!

Making fertilizer!

A lizard with black pepper in the background


Daniel shared about his experiences working 30+  years for large pineapple and banana companies

Happy kids




A toucan mascot of ours!