Greetings from Costa Rica
Here we all learned how to make a Costa Rican dinner, the dinner consisted of chicken, flour tortillas named pitas, Pinto Gallo (beans and rice), salad, Costa Rican cheese, juice and for desert ice-cream.
Above you can see the salad we ate for dinner at the restaurant where we learned how to make authentic Costa Rican cuisine.
Here a student named Anthony was taking skin samples from a frog 't get to test for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis more commonly known as BD, this is a virus that infects frogs and can end up killing them.
As you can see today was filled to the brim with service in the morning, research in the afternoon, cooking instruction in the evening and then finally individual research at night where our groups (Tres Amigos and the Frizards) hunted for specimens such as cane toads and pond frogs to help us complete our experimentsy.
In the morning we traveled into town to help some lady's weed their garden and paint posts so that they looked nicer, I thought this was a good way to spend our morning seeing as the community has received us so well and treated us with respect. This was just one way to help a community that needed some help. I thought it was a good way to spend our morning and I don't think it was bad for anyone to put back what the get out every day. The research portion of the day was well spent and productive for my group and many other groups as well I believe. The cooking classes that we took in the evening really showed us how much it takes to prepare each meal for our group and how to make very good food. At night the individual research combined with the frog hunts made for a very fun and busy night, while we didn't get all of what we needed it was still a very successful night and I enjoyed every bit of it.
Farewell and see you soon from Costa Rica
Signed Edward Asseff and Harrison Graft
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