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
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| At Daniel's Sustainable Farm |
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| A view from our host community |
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| Lots of chickens here in the countryside |
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| A view of the basketball court before painting |
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| Painting away |
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| Getting close to finishing the basketball court painting |
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| Black pepper up close |
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| We had fun feeding the pigs and piglets |
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| And giving water to the baby bull too! |
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| Making fertilizer! |
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| A lizard with black pepper in the background |
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| Daniel shared about his experiences working 30+ years for large pineapple and banana companies |
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| Happy kids |
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| A toucan mascot of ours! |
