Global Creek

Alright, well I didn´t really update last week, but it´s sometimes just hard to get everything done on the internet with the time I have. But, last week was alright, I didn´t like my spanish class very much, but in general I don´t really like those. Last week at first we didn´t get to speak at all and we just kept listening to her talk to us, and also speak in english, which is really frustrating. However, this week will be a lot better because already today all we did was speak and talk about things that are more relevant to talk about and I like my teacher this week which helps a lot.

So this weekend was a little different because we had a class trip to this place called Global creek, located close to Puerto Viejo on the carribean side. It was a class trip that my NCC professor coordinated and planned, so the entire group of 18 of us went. The place Global Creek is really new, only about a year old, but basically it is two guys from Canada that decided they wanted to live without leaving any carbon footprint or anything behind, so very eco-freindly. So they bought some land right in the rainforest and now offer lots of free classes and different learning opportunities to all of the locals, and to anyone who wants to come and stay there. You can go and volunteer and basically live there for free as long as you volunteer for half of the day. I thought it was a eally neat experience to see how you can live fairly easily and still be helping the environment, that it doesn´t have to cost a lot of money or be denying yourself things that we are accostumed to.

However, most of the people who came with me did not enjoy it at all. So there was way too much complaning the entire trip, nothing is every sufficient and I really jsut felt like a lot of people were extremely rude and greedy to the people who work there. We ate all vegetarian food, and mostly vegan food, which reminded me a lot of the food you cook mom! lol. Especially the first night we had spaghetti, and it was jsut liek what you make! haha They had free yoga classes for us to do in the morning too, which was really nice. Really i thought the whoel thign was really cool and relaxing just because we were in the rainforest and all you could hear were birds and monkeys in the morning. It´s nice to be that close to nature.

Then saturday night we all went into town, Puerto Viejo, which was fun. And yesterday we went to the beach in Cahuita, which is my favorite beach so far. I absolutley love that beach because it is simply breathtaking. All you see is water and rainforest, and when you walk into the rainforest just a few feet away there are tons of monkeys and I saw some sloths up close, it´s just fantastic! The sea is really calm and cristal clear which is amazing.