Belizean Service Project Day

            Today we went to the Lucas’s Botanical Garden and helped make signs to label plants and trees and raked up dead leaves along with planted new plants. It was a closed place because of lack of funding but he is trying to fix it up and make it nice. Lucas the owner, is an apprentice to a shaman but the shaman passed away last year. We had rakes and machettes and shovels. Most people didn’t want to do anything so I did a lot of the work. It made up for my lack of clinic participation the previous day though. Lucas cut coconuts for us so we could drink the water and cut pure sugar cane. That was really good. We also had pieces of coco from the coco fruit. It was slimy but really good. Afterward Amber and I went with Catherine to the river and cleaned up the shovels and rakes and then she brought us to her house. It was so nice she had pet dogs and chickens and turkeys and tons of fruit trees.  It was nice to finally be able to pet a dog. All of the ones we seen before were sick and stray we just couldn’t touch them. Catherine mad us coconut drinks with lime and her sister made us food to taste but it was a huge portion definitely not like the trial sizes in New York. After she brought us home so we could get our swimsuits and then we swam at ProWorld. The water felt so nice it was real hot today.  I walked down to the market and bought some souvenirs. Were about to have dinner soon then we have Punta lessons at 7:30 with the Punta King from Belmopan. Punta is like a traditional dance here in Belize so we will see how it goes.