Another week flew by and I was a good girl and didn´t take the Friday off this week! This week the children started to listen to me a tiny bit more, I spoke more Spanish and experienced my first earthquake siren. Here´s a few pictures of the life I´m currently leading, well, for 4 more days anyway......
This weekend saw a return to the beautiful lush, green cloud forests of Monteverde. When Jo, Amy and I were here last time I really wanted to do another canopy tour. Amy wasn´t keen, as her and I had already done one in Panama and Jo was scared of heights so was a definite NO! However, the draw of being able to fly through the air like ´Superman´was enough for me to want to do it again!! Its amazing what things adrenaline makes you want to do!
So, Anthony, Adrienne (two other volunteers) and I jumped on the bus Saturday morning, arrived before lunch in Monteverde and after some long debating, decided on the canopy tour with ´Adventura´, a company with 11 cables, one where you can fly like superman, one abseil (which turned out to be more like a very short fireman pole drop) and a 54 metre tarzan swing. I was not enamored with the tarzan swing or the abseiling, but was desperate to do the superman cable.
It didn´t disappoint and although it was pretty scary (I didn´t look down) whizzing along a long, high cable, only attached by ropes from your back, hands and feet free, it was awesome!! However, the tartzan swing was a whole other story. I did do it, but can´t say that I particulary enjoyed it. I had my eyes shut, the guys pushed me off and I think my screams could be heard throughout the whole forest! My stress levels at the bottom caused a panic attack as I was so worked up by the end! Having laid down and managed to get back to breathing normally, I was proud of myself for doing it, but won´t do anything like that in a hurry again.
It´s now back to Palmares for 4 final days of work. Four weeks of volunteering has certainly passed really quickly!
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| My house. |
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| My cosy little bedroom. |
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| Jorge, Lorena and Mariela - my Costa Rican family. |
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| The outside area at the centre where I work. |
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| Interactive 1 - the class where I work. |
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| The children in my class. They may look cute, but they are very naughty! |
This weekend saw a return to the beautiful lush, green cloud forests of Monteverde. When Jo, Amy and I were here last time I really wanted to do another canopy tour. Amy wasn´t keen, as her and I had already done one in Panama and Jo was scared of heights so was a definite NO! However, the draw of being able to fly through the air like ´Superman´was enough for me to want to do it again!! Its amazing what things adrenaline makes you want to do!
So, Anthony, Adrienne (two other volunteers) and I jumped on the bus Saturday morning, arrived before lunch in Monteverde and after some long debating, decided on the canopy tour with ´Adventura´, a company with 11 cables, one where you can fly like superman, one abseil (which turned out to be more like a very short fireman pole drop) and a 54 metre tarzan swing. I was not enamored with the tarzan swing or the abseiling, but was desperate to do the superman cable.
It didn´t disappoint and although it was pretty scary (I didn´t look down) whizzing along a long, high cable, only attached by ropes from your back, hands and feet free, it was awesome!! However, the tartzan swing was a whole other story. I did do it, but can´t say that I particulary enjoyed it. I had my eyes shut, the guys pushed me off and I think my screams could be heard throughout the whole forest! My stress levels at the bottom caused a panic attack as I was so worked up by the end! Having laid down and managed to get back to breathing normally, I was proud of myself for doing it, but won´t do anything like that in a hurry again.
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| Adrienne, me and Anthony all kitted up and raring to whizz down some cables! |
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| At this point I was still undecided as to whether to jump or not. |
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| I walked out here with my eyes shut. The bridge wobbled A LOT! |
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| This isn`t actually me, but you get the idea of what I did! |
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| Didn´t have a picture of the superman cable as the photos were too expensive, so I decided to draw a little diagram!! |
It´s now back to Palmares for 4 final days of work. Four weeks of volunteering has certainly passed really quickly!
OMG that's high up. You are mad. And your class look angelic - well apart from the little boy on the end who looks like he's got hold of the girl in fronts hair!
ReplyDeleteYes, it was high up and I certainly won´t be doing anything like that ever again. The child pulling the hair is one of the naughty boys, along with the boy sitting next to her with the huge smile!
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