It’s been over a week, so I guess I’ll update again. I really haven’t been doing much since I am pretty much waiting for the kids to go back to school. I finished with all of the paperwork stuff, and now I am just thinking of ways to evaluate the program. So last week was a lot of relaxation time.
I think it was on Wednesday that I finally got my hammock! Simon (pronounced Simone), one of the German researchers, knew somebody who works at Tirimbina who was going to a town that sells hammocks I guess. So if I gave this guy 20,000 colones, (about 40 bucks), he would buy me a hammock and bring it back with the change and receipt. So I gave the guy the money last Tuesday and go the hammock last Wednesday! But I couldn’t hang it up just then because I needed cord to tie it to the wood columns.
Other exciting news for Wednesday (or Thursday, I can’t remember) I may have had a tick on me (which I took out with tweezers) and I saw an armadillo at night! There were a bunch of kids staying at Tirimbina, and some of the girls saw the armadillo and were screaming about a giant rat. It was funny, but all their screaming scared it away.
Then one night last week Jessica and I and some of the researchers went over to the house of some of the workers at Tirimbina. One of the girls who lived there was Eugenia, the woman I volunteer for. It was fun, there place is beautiful! And they pay less that $100 each a month for it. If I go over there again, I will definitely take pictures lol. Speaking of pictures, I don’t have my camera yet, but it’s on its way and should be here soon!
This weekend was fun, I didn’t do much Friday except get cord for my hammock and hang it up. Saturday morning I was approached by two of the Indiana students, Matt and Claire, who asked me if I wanted to go to San Jose in a couple hours and stay in a hostel there that night. I said yes, mainly because I want to know how to get to San Jose and back by bus without a problem. So we left around 12:30, and actually got a ride from a Tirimbina researcher to the bus station instead of picking up a bus. We got on the bus and got to San Jose around 3:30ish, and had a taxi drop us off at the mall. We walked to our hostel from there, which was like a 5 minute walk, and actually met up with a couple of the other Indiana students (and Jessica) who left for San Jose on Friday and ended up staying in the same hostel! Then Matt, Claire and I went out to dinner, and headed back to the mall to catch movie. Jessica met us there and we ended up watching “Little Fockers”, which we thought would be in Spanish, but it was in English with Spanish subtitles. Then we all went back to the hostel and chilled until we went to bed.
The reason Matt and Claire wanted to go to San Jose was so that Matt could go to church Sunday morning, because he is Mormon and didn’t know of any other Mormon churches closer. So while Matt was at church, Claire and I walked around San Jose for a bit and then hit up the mall. Matt met us at the mall when he was done with church and we walked to the post office, but it was closed because it was Sunday. So then we caught the buses back to Tirimbina and were back here by 4:30.
Yesterday was another relaxing day because I just sat in my hammock and read, or watched the toucans play. I also saw a beautiful green iguana climb up the tree not far from my hammock. And I got to see a tiny gecko that one of the researchers found and brought over! I’m not sure what is in store for today or the rest of this week, but I will keep you posted!
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