Go canopy

Go Canopy!

Wau! have had so great days the last days. Just amazing! On Saturday we visited a hydroelectric plant and windmills. That was okay. Later we went to some hot springs by the lake and volcano Arenal. Arenal is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and it is really close to the village. In the evening, after the relaxing time in around 16 different hot springs and an expensive mojito, we saw some lava flows form the volcano. it was quite cloudy and dark, but we saw the red stuff coming up from the volcano and falling down on one side. I guess I will never see that again. You feel quite small when you see something like that. The hot springs were hot, most of the water was around 40 degrees and there were a lot of bars in the pools, and also some “chairs” in the water, and a lot of waterfalls. It was quite a romantic place, even if there were all too many people for it to be romantic, but our 3 new couples had fun there. I missed Micke and stayed with the not single girls. We are 19 in the program, and have already 3 couples. 6 out of 19, that is like 30%. That could be INEXs new marketing strategy.

On Sunday we did something truly amazing. It was just incredible, amazing, wonderful and totally great. We did canopy in a cloud forest. The last cable was 250 meters long and we started the last cable from a height of 40 meters, in an extremely old big tree. This was all done in the jungle, among the trees, we went above the trees, with no roads somewhere. In total we went by 11 cables. Then we also did a Tarzan swing, we just swung back and forward, straight over the trees inside the forest, high, high above the ground. First I was a bit scared, since I am not so fond of heights. But it felt so great after doing it, and so worth it. We had a helmet and 3 security leaches. If you ever get an opportunity to do, go for it!

In the evening we got to Quepos, and our new hostfamilies for the week. Me and a German girl lives with such a great women. We share a room that is outside the real house, and we have a lot of air-condition things. Quepos is by the pacific coast, and here we have Spanish classes and then we are interviewing people for a course in sustainable tourism. The questions come from the earth charter, and they are horrible. I am so ashamed to ask them, the academic courses here has not been so great. Monday morning we had an interview with the ministry of agriculture, after that we went to the beach in Manuel Antonio, wau. It was great. A lot of waves, but great. It is so, so, so pretty and green here, and Quepos is such a cute little town. And this hostmom is so great. She is so loving and caring and her 3 dogs are the greatest, they are clean and healthy and part of the family, and that is not so common here. 2 are cocker spaniels and when, the cutest one, a mix. Always when you greet at it, it lays down on the back. I was thinking it could be nice to have a dog like that, because with that one you could travel in airplanes. And it is so cute, I would like to have a dog, I miss having a dog, but Jigi will be with us when I get home. Dogs are expensive.