Sunday - octavo dia

Good day to dial it down slightly.  Our free day!  We went for a walk with Armando, and he showed us some wonderful plants and how he uses them.  These spiny palms are used for fibers to make the hat he was wearing (pic).  Victoria shared with us how the Ngobe people process a large bromeliad for fibers for making cord and thread.  I was excited to try translating for the group for her, and it went pretty well.  Scott is an awesome translator, so he helped out when I got stuck on a concept.  It was fun to see the students try out scraping the leaf with a wooden bamboo tool.  Victoria is so talented.  

After this, I rested some, and then Kassandra, Michael, Secily and I took a taxi into San Vito to shop and meet everyone at dinner.  Good pasta and company:)   Thank you so much Jessica and Scott for organizing this week, and orchestrating all the taxis and pizza.  I know it's not easy to get us all to where we need to go safely and comfortably.  Big round of applause to you!
  

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