Saturday, July 21, 2007

Meeting Cabecans, Clinic Construction

Author: Michael
Location: Zent Indigenous Village, piedades to limon
Today, the group was awakened in our hotel, El Maranon at 5:30 in th morning by our skipper gwen. Everyone rushed to pack anything that they might have forgotten for our 4 day trip to the talantic coast. After a rusched breakfast in the hotel's restaurant we hopped on the bus and were on the road by 6:00. everyone feel asleep due to the previous night in which most people gor a few short hours sleep. We were awakened around 8:30 when we arrived at a local Soda "roadsied restaurant" in which we woudl have a "buffet" breakfast. After about an hour long breakfast, we got right back on the bus for a one hour ride to an indigenious village called Cabeca. Once we arrived we were greeted by Cabecan tribe members whoose native tounge is not spanish, but Cabecan. They began to show us some of their daily tool-less activities such as ligthting a fire and making dolls and purses. We then unloaded six 45lb. Bags of cement off the bus and walked on a 45min. up-hill trek to the heart of the village where we helped build a local clinic for the Cabecans. Aftger moving several boulders and digging many holes, we walked back down the trail and ate a lunch of rice and chiken. During our lunch it began to pour and once done, we rushed back on the bus and enjoyed a long awaited visit to the supermarket in Limon. Where our next hotel, "Happyland" is located. After a swim in the hotels pool, everyone took showers and ate a chicken dinner. Now everone is anxiousl for tomorrow trip to Tortuguerro.
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