The weekends in our program start on Saturday night and end on Sunday. No more luxurious two-day weekends. We had a full day of classes on Friday and Saturday. Saturday, we had a nature walk with Rodo, the director/resident expert at our site, before resuming more lectures. Rodo is hilarious and is always joking about the plants we see. We saw a tree that had hanging flowers known to have hallucinogenic properties, and it turned out to be a part of the family of plants I have to do a research project on. My professor, Hector, told me that he once slept with one of the flowers under his pillow to test the theory that the practice induces vivid dreams!
On Saturday evening, we shared an environmental discussion with some students from la universidad nacional that were on a retreat at our site before catching a fleet of taxi cabs into the small rural town of San Vito. The collective 30-something of us easily took over a local bar, S lugar, and later hijacked the dance floor. It turned out to be a good warm-up in speaking spanish seeing as I go to my homestay on Wednesday, where I will have to speak it all of the time. I think the warm-up worked because one of my 5 roommates (sharing a tiny room with me) told me that I was sleep-talking in spanglish. Half way there!
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