Thursday morning was unexpectadly quite an eventful morning. A professor from UVM, Azur, came to town on wednesday afternoon with a professor from Costa Rica and his wife, a Nicaraguan scholar/activist, and a retired pilot who was volunteering us his services. Since the Costa Rican professor´s wife had gotten sick on wednesday´s flight, I got to step up into her spot and take part in Thursday morning´s flight. I woke up at 5am, before the sun rose, and walked to their hotel where we were picked up by a cab. We arrived at this tiny little airstrip where there was the smallest plane i´ve ever seen, with barely room for five people. I believe it was called a cessna.
We took off and circled the surrounding area for about two hours, flying along the winding rivers, out to the ocean and back again. The point was to photograph the landscape to show just what parts were being destroyed, and what parts were still reasonably intact. We circled a shrimp farm several times, flying way too low for my comfort, to get a closer view of this particularly harmful operation. About halfway through I thought I was going to yack, but I managed to hold it down. The flight was absolutely spectacular, but I was glad to have my feet back on the ground by the time it was over.
Things in Sierpe are moving slowly and consistently onward. I am glad to have the internet at my fingertips, which I will be leaving behind along with Sierpe for a month on monday, when I move on to my next stop. This will my a day long journey north to a chocolate farm just south of Puriscal. At this farm they grow and make their own chocolate, and also supposedly have daily soccer games, which should be just swell. This morning I taught english to the son of the restaurant/internet owner for about an hour. This was pretty funny, as he struggled with sounds like ¨r¨and ¨th¨. I have unfortunately not seen any more crocodiles in the river, after seeing two on the very first day I was here. I have a kind of decent picture that I will try to post along with this entry.
Otherwise, I miss you all and I´m looking forward to being home with friends and family again. Until then, pura vida.
paz y amor
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sounds great jesse, keep em coming. I watched Bear Grylls recently and he said that crocodiles are very nice, and like it when you jump on there back..
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