So i don't have internet access, post offices are nearly impossible to find and my phone only has service if i climb a hill, said hill is now referred to as colina de gringos (white person hill) since we all cover the hill afrer our tech class ends. I am however getting ahead of myself, and truly wanted to write about the site visit my fellow cec pcts and I did sometime last week (I'm writing this on sat jan 21 and will post it whenever I have internet access.) My plan is to start writing some posts and save them, then I can post multiple when I have internet access.
We took dug out canoes across a river to visit a cec volunteer currently serving! The community is actually located in a National Park. The park was created after the people where already living in the community, and the creation of the park forced the people to completely change their way of life, because they were once farmers and had cleared the land to do their farming. First, we went on a hike through the jungle with the volunteer and her Panamanian counterpart. It was a gorgeous hike, really a gorgeous site overall. However, it is currently the beginning of the dry season, one of the prettiest times of the year because everything is still green, but it isn't raining all the time. Apparently the river we crossed is often just a small steam, the community actually uses the steam bed to crow corn and other crops.
After our hike some women in the town made us a spectacular lunch of rice with chicken, fried fish, and salad. We then learned a little bit about the volunteers projects and saw her house that the community had built for her. Here are some pictures from the day!
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