Maya V

After our fantastic time in Parismina, we embarked on our journey to Koswak, an indigenous bribri community. We awoke early in the morning and had a quick breakfast and packed up until the boat arrived to pick us up. We said goodbye to the howler monkeys and loaded into the boat. After a 20 minute ride we were back on the mainland and we loaded all our stuff into the bus. We drove for a while, learning about the banana fields beside us and the people who worked them. We stoped at a local store to grab some treats and then at a restaurant to grab some lunch. We drove for many hours and saw amazing views along the way. Finally we reached a river and we split off into groups so that we could take the very skinny boats across the river. On the other side, once everyone got across, we loaded into a school bus with some other locals and drove to where we were staying. Each of our rooms have too beds with big nets that have to be tucked under the mattress. We are staying in what looks like a tree fort with leaves for a roof and walls that don’t go all the way up. After some bug net hanging we had a delicious dinner and revived a culture lesson. A local indigenous game and taught us many of the important words of the bribri language. We finished off the night with a team meeting to debrief and then crawled in to bed falling asleep quickly after a long day.