May 2007

Whatever Ali said, ditto that. Things are pretty good down here, lifes treating me well. My dorky side is out in full force. Lots of bugs and animals to look at. Two bats flying around our room and an iguana eating a moth would be two highlights.

Barry and Nancy have been good to us. Things at the Soup (said soooo-pa) Kitchen are really great. We made bead necklaces with the families in Tuesday, they were a hit. On Mondaý we'll be heading down to Don Candido, the BriBri medicine man.

Updates early next week. Its nice to be away from the daily news of life.

So Barry and Nanci of the Bridge--El Puente are proving to be very interesting people as is their organization, mainly because of all the things they've committed themselves to...which invariably means giving up a variety of other things, some might call those other things luxuries, others would consider them nescessities...speaking of which the best part of volunteering with el puente are the BriBri. I've now had the chance to meet with various bribri families through soup kitchen and try to converrse with them using my very limited spanish..they're amazing even in their simplicity, especially the children! I expected as much from a people with a culture that has survived for as many thousand years as their's has...its also a cuture that is slowly being wiped out. On the note of bribri culture there is many valuable aspects...like Don Candido's knowledge of 1000's of plants and trees that cure all types of ailments from mosquito bites to cancer and diabetes!!...yeah tell me we wouldnt want a piece of that in our 'developed' countries...it all makes you appreciate the diversity of our world.
And then there are the BUGS...the things you witness in costa rica...what happens in costa rica, stays in costa rica...beetles bigger than a twoonie or 25 colones coin and lizzards that eat moths larger than their own head and thats inside our room at casa mar y tierra--which by the way is a very nice place to stay...