some delicious hot chocolate (also known as cacao), and some heart of palm. Next, we had some down time (P-90X anyone?) and headed off to lunch which was potatoes, carrots, and beef and rice with some sort of delicious sauce. After lunch we had our first classroom session where we got our teams. They are: Cort, Meghan, and Maddy (Team Los Tres Tremendos); Mary, Anna, and Kevin (The World Runners); Erin, Claudia, Melissa, and Annie (Team Los Increibles); and Grant, Leah, Hannah, and Allie (Team #Yolo$wag). We then conducted an experiment involving bacterial swabs and petri dishes and learned about the scientific method. While in the classroom, our daily rainstorm came through and we lost power and couldn't hear each other over the rain. Then after some more relaxing time and our afternoon card time, we embarked on a tour of Colonia Libertad, population 322. While in town we had some homemade ice cream, visited the school with a playground from a person in Minnesota, saw the soccer fields, got some cool sunset pictures, saw some peoples' gardens, and we saw Oropendula. These birds, funny enough, create pendulum-like nests dangling from tall trees along with some toucans.
Our next adventure was dinner. We ate some delicious squash, mashed potatoes, chicken and some sauce, green beans, and salad. For desert we had some Cajeta. (coconut, chocolate, milk and eggs; creating a little ball that had a texture like cookie dough). After dinner we watched a video about zombie bullet ants and it featured our mentor Dr. Adrian Pinto. We then had a group discussion with Adrian and Dr. Andrew Bouwma (Dutch for 'son of a farmer') about ants and the rhino beetles that were crawling all over our classroom.For all of you reading this we are all doing well, being fed adequately, and are having a blast. Our only injury so far was a Bullet ant sting for John and plenty of mosquito bites.
Signing off for now,
Cort and Mary
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