Saturday, January 19, 2013

1/12/13 Volunteer Botanical Garden and Punta Dancing


So the politician last night cancelled on us again so we ended up going to Cayo Twist to get some ice cream then we went to the casino. It was called the Princess Casino San Ignacio. I only spent BZ$ 5 ($2.50 American). I didn’t really know what I was doing on the slots but it was fun. We only stayed for a little while. People were allowed to smoke in there so my eyes ended up killing me and Stephen and Zack were tired so we left around 10:30. It’s definitely weird being around smoke inside when you come from NY where you’re not allowed to smoke indoors.
Today has been a really slooooooooow day. We did this volunteer thing where we went to this botanical garden to help them out. We raked some leaves and painted some wooden planks that they’re going to make into signs. The good part of it was we got to try more coconut and sugar cane. They also had a cocoa plant where you could suck on the bean. I didn’t try it because the texture looked really weird, but the sugar cane was delicious. Also while we were there, they showed us a bunch of the plants and even got some to try and help Amber with the rash on her arm. It was pretty cool to watch, even though Amber said it didn’t really work. Grant said that they’re probably going to get some prednisone from the pharmacy for a couple of the people who got a rash while pushing the bus out of the mud. We only spent a couple of hours there then headed back to ProWorld. Vicky and I went to the market for a little bit after that, but didn’t stay very long. Neither of us really felt like buying anything. It’s been a crazy hot day today which made both of us really tired, so we walked up the ginormous hill, stopped at Sweet Ting to get an iced coffee then she went back to her house and I stopped at a shop next to Cayo Twist to get more bug spray since I’m running low. It’s obnoxious how expensive bug spray is here. It was BZ$ 16.95 for a single can of bug spray.
Once I got back to the house, I just ended up taking a nap for a bit and now here I am writing my blog while David and his friends play outside. One of them was hitting drum sticks on cans while I was trying to sleep. Ugh.
Anyway, tonight we have Punta lessons and tomorrow we have Pine Ridge.

Amber got a rash on her arm from something a couple days ago so Lucas said he could try something and this is him putting it on her arm








Drinking some coconut water


Sugarcane 

Time for PUNTA! 














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