Chivo Viaje

Last week I went to Chinameca for Field Based Training. It was four, 15-hour days of completely exhausting and rewarding work. We gave two lessons (charlas) on garbage, let a school-wide trash pickup, and gave a skit on recycling at a school assembly. We spoke mostly Spanish the whole weekend, which kind of blew my mind.
Other highlights include: pupusas and two tubs of ice cream for Angelica´s birthday, visting the local NGO and tree nursery, eating endless maracuya (best fruit ever), a 6 hour hike through cafetal with 70 kids, a siesta on the patio of a mansion, playing softball with a stick and a ball of tape until Emily whacked the tapeball through the window of a classroom, singing the whole micro ride home, walking into a tree, and playing ping pong!
This weekend also consisted of my single favorite Peace Corps moment so far. After touring a local coffee cooperative that is about to receive organic certification and savoring some of the most amazing honey and coffee of my life, we all piled in the back of a pickup and drove home in the warm sunset binging on organic oranges and laughing and enjoying time with new friends.