Top some of the past week:
1. Visiting a schoolmates farm and seeing how they have turned a cow pasture into a 'food forest' over the past fifteen years
They produce bananas, yuca, beans, tomatoes, chamol and the best coffee in MV. We were sent home with a 'racimo' of platanos.

2. Preparing land to build a greenhouse: We are working with a friend to clear a piece of pasture, cut timber, and create a refuge from rain and wind for seedlings and vegetables.

3. Helping 5th and 6th graders use their English skills to explain and model earth/sun relationships.

4. Helping 3rd and 4th graders learn how to build electrical circuits

5. Helping 7th and 8th graders understand atoms, molecules and the conservation of mass - nothing is created nor destroyed.

6. Leading 1st through 12th graders in our Frisbee minicourse each thursday afternoon. We start with a friendly game of frisbee golf, then practice our skills, then play a more intense game of ultimate!

7. Barbecuing the meat at dia de deportivas (Sportsday) and trying to make a bow drill fire. The kids were very interested, but it does require a ton of patience and concentration. That's why 99.999999 percent of the world use easier methods to start fires.

8. Receiving a guided tour of the cloud forest by a school parent. The tour group never showed, so "looks like just you and I."
We found five quetzals under his ask and you shall receive policy. He laughed as he commented that people travel thousands of miles to see these birds. They are spectacular.

9. Calling local electrical generating plants to set up a class trip - fine method to practice Spanish.

10. Playing with the boys - soccer, zipline, hula hoops, whacking away with the machete,


Ant update: Those smart little buggers have been moving the cabbage off to the side of the trail so their pathways are clear for hauling higher valued booty such as squash and banana leaf bits. So, they turned their antennas up at our cabbage concoction, and we have learned more.