We got our luggage the day after landing and drove for 4 hours to the nearest city to the project, called Colomba. There we got onto the back of a pickup truck and winded our way up the mountain to La Florida. I feel like i´ve been in La Florida for years and it has only been 3 days. There was no electricity for the first few days. Our beds are wretched things, just planks with a thin mat over top. I wake up in the middle of the night from dreams on looking at bruises on my side in the mirror, but it´s just because i´ve rolled onto my side in my sleep and it´s really freaking painful. We have to cook all our food over a wood burning stove, but i am learning how to cook!!! so that´s pretty cool. All the food is really oily and carby and delicious. The local women make tortillas for us fresh every day.

So far we have only been working on orientation stuff but i am slowly meeting the members of the community and my spanish is improving exponentially. Our schedule, however, will be working in the feilds with the farmers from 8am to 1 pm and then the rest of the afternoon will be for social projects. We´re planning youth empowerment, social acivities for the women because we´ve learned that they really have no hobbies other than gossip, and english and spanish literacy classes. Most of the adults in La Florida don´t even know how to spell their own names.