End of First Week in Cahuita

Hey everyone! So it´s the end of my first week here in Cahuita. I´ve met so many great people already. For example, my new buddy is this 95 year old man that is really famous for his Calypso music. Every day he sits at the same table at the same chair in the same restaurant, so I go and chat with him and have a soda. He´s super interesting and sweet. I´ve also met a lot of the local community leaders.

Today there was a campaign against dengue which included the first widescale recycling effort in Cahuita. It lasted all day and it was a great success. I was happy to be a big help.It was interesting because the Ministry of Health came and provided music and a microphone for this guy to throw in little blurbs about dengue and recycling but for the most part they really didn´t do anything except help us eat lunch. But there was a core group of us that worked really hard and had fun.

This past week I also went to the National Park which was absolutely gorgeous. It is very natural and has an "untouched" feel since it is community run and not government run. Therefore you can just go walking around as you like and walk all the way to Cahuita Point which is a very historic site since this is where the first settlers came to. This park also boasts a huge coral reef that you can go snorkeling to see, but I don´t know if I will since there are sharks around there! Everyone has assured me that they are harmless sharks but for some reason I still don´t feel comfortable haha. There are many tour companies here but it is the off´-season so there really aren´t too many tourists.

So I had completely forgotten about a sucker that I had left in my purse which I had casually thrown on my bed before I left the house yesterday. Number 1 rule about living in the tropics (which I should have already known): DO NOT leave candy ANYWHERE....especially not on your bed. When I got home there was a black trail of ants that spanned across my entire bed whose destination was my purse...so yea that was tons of fun cleaning that up.

Well the sun is starting to go down so I should start walking back to my home. Ciao! Take care everyone