Happy Thursday. The river is full, and you can smell it. It's just a bit earthy. It's impressive to watch.
We started the day by regrouping at the Chilamate Eco-retreat and sharing stories about our first nights of home-stays.
We all had fun experiences, and it was fun listening to similarities and differences. Dana talked about how welcome she felt in he home and how engaged they all wanted to be. The youngest daughter made Daena a rubber-band ring just like those currently popular on the big island. Dana did a great job at translating. Lisa and Kristen both felt their experience was very "joyous." Lisa had some mild food issues but was able to work around them. It seemed just like a regular family to them. They played with the kids while the mom cooked and sat around talking after the meal. Jerry and I had lots of fun with our host family. We had a wonderful dinner and shared lots of stories. Jerry did a great job with his Spanish and his few lapses added to the fun for all. He claimed he was surprised how funny he was in spanish. After individually sharing, we talked about a lot of different things. Here's just one. It turns out that kids often get phones here at quite a young age too.
After sharing stories, we began working again on issues related to the academic program and what would make sense for a student trip. We began by summarizing some lengthy discussions, identified a number of questions and then began trying to develop answers. I won't go into details here.
After a productive morning, we went to la selva biological station. We started with lunch and then proceeded to go on a three hour walking tour of the forest. Our guide seemed quite knowledgeable and he pointed out a number of interesting things concerning the flora and the fauna. We saw animals ranging from precarious to agouti (a large rodent -not an r.o.u.s.) and a couple of spider monkeys. It's hard to remember all that we heard about plans and trees given how copious it was.
Following a quick stop at the gift shop we headed back to the Eco retreat to grab on bags and then on to our home stays for the second night.
The river is back down considerably and hopefully rafting will go as planned. During the night at the Eco-retreat the puppies were born.
We started the day by regrouping at the Chilamate Eco-retreat and sharing stories about our first nights of home-stays.
We all had fun experiences, and it was fun listening to similarities and differences. Dana talked about how welcome she felt in he home and how engaged they all wanted to be. The youngest daughter made Daena a rubber-band ring just like those currently popular on the big island. Dana did a great job at translating. Lisa and Kristen both felt their experience was very "joyous." Lisa had some mild food issues but was able to work around them. It seemed just like a regular family to them. They played with the kids while the mom cooked and sat around talking after the meal. Jerry and I had lots of fun with our host family. We had a wonderful dinner and shared lots of stories. Jerry did a great job with his Spanish and his few lapses added to the fun for all. He claimed he was surprised how funny he was in spanish. After individually sharing, we talked about a lot of different things. Here's just one. It turns out that kids often get phones here at quite a young age too.
After sharing stories, we began working again on issues related to the academic program and what would make sense for a student trip. We began by summarizing some lengthy discussions, identified a number of questions and then began trying to develop answers. I won't go into details here.
After a productive morning, we went to la selva biological station. We started with lunch and then proceeded to go on a three hour walking tour of the forest. Our guide seemed quite knowledgeable and he pointed out a number of interesting things concerning the flora and the fauna. We saw animals ranging from precarious to agouti (a large rodent -not an r.o.u.s.) and a couple of spider monkeys. It's hard to remember all that we heard about plans and trees given how copious it was.
Following a quick stop at the gift shop we headed back to the Eco retreat to grab on bags and then on to our home stays for the second night.
The river is back down considerably and hopefully rafting will go as planned. During the night at the Eco-retreat the puppies were born.
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