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This morning I found a giant ant that had a huge abdomen. Spanish went well, I cannot believe how fast
these two weeks have passed. I feel like
I have pretty much every word I'll need for now, just need to sit down and
learn some more verbs and conjugations.
One Big Ant (D.Philpot) |
Fungi Infested Ant? (D.Philpot) |
Bat Crossing On The Way To School (D.Philpot) |
P-man
tricked me by saying that all of us were getting a bus to the Monte Verde cloud
forest reserve. After school WE joined
our classmates in a small trip to the reserve where we took photos inside a
giant log and some group photos before being attacked by some very angry
insects with luminous green eyes (see 5th picture below). They had a long proboscis mouth tube thing
that they tried to pierce through our socks and skin - after a little
harassment from these guys we ran a little bit.
An Interesting Mite/Spider (D.Philpot) |
Standing In A Fallen Tree (D.Philpot) |
A Golden Beetle (D.Philpot) |
A Metallic Green Beetle (D.Philpot) |
Attack Of The Green-Eyed Fly (D.Philpot) |
Along
the same lines a Beetle landed on one of our classmates so again we told him to
stay still in order to take a few photographs.
Before leaving we went to the waterfall at the end of the longest trail
in the Monte Verde Reserve, and then I managed to take a lot more hummingbird
photos at the Colibri Café. We collected
a sample of moss from the reserve for use with the students and p-man earned
the nickname of moss man.
Three videos can also be seen of the reserve here:
Golden Caterpillar (D.Philpot) |
Purple Hummingbird (D.Philpot) |
Morpho Butterfly Building (D.Philpot) |
Leaving
the reserve we walked to get phone signal, got a taxi back to the Spanish
school, and then WE went for dinner where I had my first ever burrito - shock
horror! while waiting for our classmates to meet us at the Tavern Bar.
Only one showed as the girl had bumped into her friend returning from Nicaragua, and so I had a couple of rum and orange juices (that was cheaper than beer…) before WE took a taxi back and I slept without doing my homework… umm!
My First Ever Burrito (D.Philpot) |
Only one showed as the girl had bumped into her friend returning from Nicaragua, and so I had a couple of rum and orange juices (that was cheaper than beer…) before WE took a taxi back and I slept without doing my homework… umm!