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| Bananas! |
Seeing as I have thoroughly abandoned my blog for the past three or so weeks, here is a quick photo update of the weekend that we spent in the mountains of Jinotega, in the northern part of Nicaragua.
We stayed at La Bastlila, a school for high school-aged kids, where agricultural skills are taught for one week in the classroom, and the next week is spent working in either the school's garden, raising/tending to the pigs, cows or chickens, or working in the guest lodge, learning tourism skills.
We worked alongside the students in whichever fields interested us the most: I spent the first day working in the garden, and the second helping tend to the cows.
La Bastilla is a school for students from low-income/rural areas, so to avoid charging tuition to attend the school, the products of the students' work are used to run the school: eggs, milk, vegetables and pigs are sold in town and all the profits are used to run the school. Money from the EcoLodge also goes towards running the school.
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| The view from the EcoLodge, where we stayed for three nights |
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| ...which was fully solar-powered |
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| Not a bad view! |
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| The EcoLodge |
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| Hard at work, doing some non-organic farming! |
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| Day 2: Taking care of the cows |
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| There were a few chickens. As in, 900. Literally. |
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| After-lunch break! Days are a lot longer when you wake up at 4:30 to take care of the cows. |
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| Our last night, with some of the students from La Bastilla. We were so sad to leave! |
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