Blogs from Cartago, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 13

Unfortunatley my entire blog has been lost due to an unforseen crash with the providers main server. Feeling pretty low about that at the mo as i had anticipated to use the website as my main journal. Hindsight dictates i should have backed it up. Note to self back everything up. well it is 1042 pm Costa Rica time. Im on 24 hour radio duty in case of emergency at any of the project sites. Much has happened since my last entry, but not quite feeling the love at the mo to write vast amounts. You can drop me a mail through here or on my email ewensilcock@hotmail.com i will add to this again when i can work out what happened and when. last night we had a pool party, i built us a pool 5m ... read more

Up early as we needed to see one last campsite before we left, again unfortuantely there seemed to be no recentley trodden path so after 45 minutes we decided to give this up and work with the areas we had already seen. Whilst we were waiting for our ride I took some interesting photos of a building at our secret location. Bats seemed to be plentiful and after 20 mins I had got a couple of decent shots. I must have taken a bout 200 photos and out of them about 5 were ok. Whilst we were waiting for our ride I decided to read the leaflet I was given with my malaria tablets, I wish I hadn't as the given side effects didn't sound great. I have to take these every day and I haven't ... read more

Well 4T and all at Lyons Hall (still missing you all) the summer has finally arrived and a new beginning awaits you in September. Until then enjoy your summer, don't work too hard!!! Hopefully the sun will continue to shine for you all summer long. We are all very busy here getting ready for the arrival of the participants next week. saying that we are going into town tonight, just like heading into braintree but warmer!!! Tomorrow we are going white water rafting which should be a great experience. I will add some more photos to the blog. I still need to catch up on what else has happened but we are so busy we get very little time to ourselves. Currentley my right hand has swollen up as i have been bitten by some bug, ... read more

Arrival into Costa Rica went without a hitch, flights and connections ran smoothly. Although it still freaks me out being that high in the sky and having no control over it. Ross (program manager/scottish!!!) met us at the airport where we arranged cabs to Costa Rica backpackers. We being myself, Emma S, Nimrat, Piers and Ian all Project staff. On arrival they hadn't heard of us although Ross was adamant he'd had a 20 min conversation with them earlier in the day. We have truely arrived in Central america!!! After checking in dropping the bags off in our room we headed down for a cold drink and a catch up with our new friends.... read more

Up early, well id been up half the night didn't sleep to well, 0700 its a lie in to what i'm used to now, although its 1400 UK time. The Country Director met us we loaded a couple of 4WD's and made our way to Field Base, home for the duration of the project, in Catie in the area of Volcan Turrialba. An imposing volcanoe not exactly dormant. We arrived roughly 2 hours later after a lengthy 60 km journey over pretty bumpy roads not your typical UK roads. We were met by the rest of the team Marco-Logistics/comic, Hugh and Amanda-assistant logistics, Kiran-Medic, Yvette- accounts, Helen-admin, Esla and Emma p twoof the translaters going out to project. Breakfast followed, a local speciality rice with black beans which is known as pinto. This is eaten for ... read more