Friday

Today its a little warmer then it has been. I've made my way into town today on my day off to pick up a few things, mostly fruit. Volunteering has been interesting, everytime I start to think its boring something happens. Someone dropped off a big hawk at Nanci's for her to look after for one night. He never came back so she took it to the vets, meanwhile, I was left to run the soup kitchen by myself. It's not an overwhelmingly difficult task, there was only about 20 people to serve. However, its all about maintenance. More galletas (crackers), sopa, jugo(juice) and cafe. It mostly involves me running back and forth from the kitchen with this and that.

The time spent at Don Candido's was fantastic. We spent time cleaning the medicinal gardens and making handicrafts. The medicinal garden is pretty cool, especially learning about what plants cure illnesses, like cancer, diabetes etc. We are going back on Monday though I am unsure of what our work schedule is. THere are plans to hike to a waterfall, about 2kms away to clean up the garbage, and then go for a swim of course. On another day were going to a nearby reservation to do something.. not really sure what exactly. That is kind of the way things work, one day its soup kitchen the next day something else.

When I find a place to upload photos I will. There are some great photos, especially of the bugs and strange animals. Oh yeah, the beautiful ocean as well. So far, so good. I think after we leave Puerto Viejo on the 26th, we are heading back to the central valley to spend our last few days in San Ramon, Sarchi, in the Alajuela province.

Love,
Ashley