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Roaaad Triiip # 2
... supplies of cement and charcoal back to the group. Then back into Esteli again back to our favourite café before heading onto the next group Xray 5 (who are busy building Latrines in a community about 1.5 hours away). It was very nice to see Becky & Leanne out fellow fieldbase members and catch up with them. But next morning, you have guessed it, were heading back to Esteli – this time with Leanne and her broken tooth in tow to find a dentist to get it fixed, via the ...
Small rant...
... br> Anyhow – after all the cleaning we managed to cook up a fantastic breakfast of pancakes, sausages, bacon & scrambled eggs!! Then some very well earned sleeping in the staff room occasionally waking up to the sounds of wimbledon on the tv! It is like a perfect Sunday morning!
Soon enough field base starts to empty even more. Becky, Rolo and Bjorn hit the road for a 2 week road trip to Nicaragua visiting the various groups. However we also get our ...
Jungle Camp & Zinc Oxide
Good news – the rest of the Project Managers have all made it to Costa Rica! 18 rescued from San Jose airport! And we are straight away into a regimented and detailed training programme. Everything from how to set up a manual radio with a battery and aerial in a tree and swimming assessments (to ensure we don't drown in the water) and how to mix cement to map reading (on very very old, and much less detailed maps than in the UK!) and soft skills ...
Rafting one of the best rivers in the world
... grab food and we pile it on. I am excited. It was really good too and now I am full. I go to find Leo cause I want to tell him how I used to be a raft guide and see if he will let me paddle captain our raft for awhile. We talk and then he asks me why I didn’t tell him earlier. "Sure you can jump in for a bit," he says. YES!! Now I am stoked. So, he kept his word and I led us through a handful of rapids including a class 4!! I am so pumped ...
First weekend off
A bunch of us have come out to Turrialba for long weekend and its been amazing.
We went white water rafting which was so much fun. I definately want to do it again. It was in the most beautiful place through all these canyons with primary forests all around. We were able to get off the raft and have a swim a couple of times too. Our rafting guide or instructor or whatever he is, is in Costa Ricas white water rafting team, ...