Day 5 Coffee Tour

Hello all,

This morning half of the group went bird watching again at 6:30. We saw more birds than the other group, and we even saw Capuchin Monkeys and an Agouti (A small capybara). After a breakfast of the ever so famous Arroz y Frijoles, we headed down to the classroom for morning science. Our main goal was to finish our 3rd diagrams and start work on our final posters. We had a quick break at 10, and by 10:20 we were back hard at work. Lunch couldn't come soon enough, and by noon we were chowing down. At 1 we hopped in the vans and took an incredibly short ride to San Luis, a local coffee farm and tour. Apparently they didn't have our reservation, but within a half an hour we were given a warm welcome by Victor, the owner. He didn't speak any English, so we had to have one of on-campus naturalists translate for him. We learned about the coffee tree itself, the antique methods in  which it was prepared, and the more modern machine-dominated techniques. After the tour, Victor gave a heart-felt speech about his life as a coffee farmer, and how grateful he was to have people like us learn about his livelihood. We sampled the coffee, and of course bought coffee among other things (namely 3 liters of Coke). We returned to campus, and had roughly 2 and a half hours of free time before dinner. Some spent this socializing, and others with physical activity. When dinner came, we were hungry, and rightly so. Dinner was a complete surprise, because it was noodles! We couldn't believe it! 

Sam, Robert, and Ryan








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