BEACH

O.K. I will start at to day firs and then tell you about the farm. Today-at 7am, we woke up but none of the restaurants were open. So, we bought some delicious crescent roles to tide us over until 8:30! At 8:30, we had pancakes at La Flor, and bought some fruit. It tasted so good to eat food other than rice and beans. After breakfast, we went down and spent an exhilarating day at the beach! We have just finished eating pizza (which by the way was not bad, thank gosh!)

Well... I should probably tell you all about the farm, also-the earthquake did not hit us to all of you that were wondering. I know I covered a little about the farm in my previous blog but I will try and go more in depth this time! Anyways, the farm is great, I learned that they have very many different kinds of composting. All the animal manure is used to produce a rich soil for the plants called humus. They have a dry toilet, they compost the brush and have many different theory's about inter-mixing rows of veggies and flowers to produce a good chemical reaction to grow. Example: They plant a papaya tree right next to a coffee and banana tree-banana for chemical formula and the papaya tree provides shade for the coffee! All the food they make comes off the organic farm-except the rice-and the food is great the first day you try it. After your 3rd or 4th day you start to get tired of eating the same thing over and over again! The setting of Rio Muchaco is beautiful and the locals are fun and nice to work with and talk to. As for the volunteers, there is a older couple that are REALLY nice and friendly and then there are 10 or 12 college students that can be very noninclusive although they are nice once you get to talking with them. Also there is a 7 year old Malakia-he is really fun and nice to hang out with and play with. Vienna, Treava and I play soccer with the kids and Malakia every night and we usually win the boys-we also have fun teaching the kids card games at night that they just love! If any of you have any card tricks you could teach me over the Internet i´m sure they would appreciate it! I MISS you all and cant wait to get home! Noelle