Day Four

The bugs here are plentiful and usually scary. Last night, SOMEONE LEFT THE DOOR OPEN. When we got into our room, there was the only bug that scares our guide, Randall, a bullet ant. It is a huge ant which has a bite that supposedly feels like getting shot. The ant was sitting right on Colin's bed. Right when Chase went into our room, he came out screaming. We had to get Randall to take it out of our room. For the rest of the night, everyone except Yohannes and Christian were cautious about everything. After a very scary night, we finally forgot about it and went on with our day. After we had a breakfast with Costa Rican pancakes, we headed over to a soccer field to play against a Costa Rican team. They were HUGE. They were really good too so we got crushed. I think they scored about 10 goals on us. I tried to get the ball from this 6 foot tall kid, I got the ball, but I also fell and it hurt a lot. When we got back, after taking showers, we had a meeting. Right when I put my seat down for the meeting, I went to sit, but Chase had taken the seat out from under me. I didn't realise he did, so I had fallen right to the ground. For the rest of the day, my back had hurt from me falling. The meeting was a scavenger hunt to see how our spanish is going. I didn't really help, because I didn't know what half the words meant, we did well but still, we obviously lost to Angela's group. After the scavenger hunt meeting, we walked to a cacao farm not too far away from the lodge we were staying in. The cacao beans and chocolate nibs were so bitter and not very good. But then we tasted some real chocolate and it was very tasty. When it was over Colin bought four big chocolate bars for 16 dollars. Then we came back to the lodge and got some free time at the end of the day.
-Liam