It makes a month in site yesterday. We continue to meet challenges and experience exciment as we meet more people and learn about the different oppurtunities. It is hard not to jump right into every project that seems could be improved or implimented and take things slowly to really find some sure footing. Our community seems to know every techincal practice listed in the books of tropical agriculture, but lack the small tricks or often the motivation to do things differently.

There may not be an abundance of trees to keep you shaded while weeding the fields and building gardens, but the swimming holes abound and in our short week and a half veranito and break from the rains of rainy season, we tried to explore as may of the local cool off spots as we could.

Below are a few photos of our daily lives. pounding rice to remove the hulls, resting at the top of a mountian that we just finished weeding, and hanging out with the kids.






a few photos