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La Iglesia
Here is the Catholic Church where Teresa and Melvin go. They only have a service every 4 weeks when a visiting priest comes. I heard movement in the house just after 5 am and was ready to get up. The air outside is cool and comfortable and I no longer see mosquitos on my curtain and in the bedroom. Melvin was walking to work by 5:30 am and Teresa was sitting with him and watching the news a bit before that. After he left she watched a novella from Mexico and then she started on her outside chores. I looked in on Tim and he was home. He woke a little and told me that he didn't get to see a turtle on his shift and that it was exhausting.
Later Tim and I went to the hatchery where some volunteers were digging into the nests. Tim wanted to help them but none of them were very sure of what they were doing and none could explain very well what they were attempting to do. I decided to go talk to the project leader and see if this is something we should be working on. I found Vicky at the turtle information center and when I asked if this was something we should get involved with, she was surprised that they were digging
Hatchery
Here is the Viverio where the eggs are placed in nests in the sand. in the nests. She told me the agenda for the day was that there was a meeting with the homestay mothers and an English lesson afterwards. She knew that some people would be busy today because a group of priests were visiting and the ladies were going to clean the church and get it ready for a mass in the evening.
I walked around the village some and met Rick who runs the Green Iguana Inn. He is known to the locals as Loco Rico and while I walked past his place there were different old guys hanging out chatting with him. He is from Tampa and explained to me that he has been living in Parismina for 20 years and once that he has married a Costa Rican he was denied a renewed passport. He has applied for a tourist visa but had to hire a lawyer to plead his case to the INS. He says that the INS is concerned if he brings his wife and young son to the US, because she could divorce him and she and his son would be eligable for welfare. Anyway, he has been granted his tourist visa for 3 months
Inside the Hatchery
Here are some people digging in the sand and looking for baby turtles that might be hatching. and plans to go back to Tampa to visit his mother and to do landscaping during the time he is there. He also wants to take his son to Disney World and plans to go on his birthday because he says it is free. Rick is the brother of Vicky and Vicky has been in Parismina for 30 years. She came here as a nurse in the Peace Corps and never left. She has 3 boys here and is very involved in many aspects of the community.
A young girl gave Tim and I tour of the village and our host mother also gave me a tour the first night we were here. Slowly we are beginning to figure out where everything is and eventually we should know everyone since there are only about 600 people in the village.
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