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Jan-Erik Neun ----Berlin/Alemania---October 2009
My volunteer work at the Bribripa Kaneblo Indigenous Reserve. Going to Salitre by bus was very easy. It just took me an hour from the San Isidro station to Buenos Aires. Then I took a Taxi to Salitre, which cost me 4000 Colones. As soon as I reached the Bribri reserve in Salitre, they already expected me happily! I got to know the people I was going to work with for the next days and of course my host family. They were really really nice, and although the living conditions are so different from those in Europe or the US, it was great staying with them. My daily schedule was alwas like this, waking up at 6:00 a.m more or less, then breakfast (Gallo Pinto;-) at 6:30, starting work at 7:30 a.m. I either helped them to build the "rancho", made of palm leaves, or built wooden signs for the diferent parts of the reserve. It was exhausting sometimes but also interesting, especially the work in the "rancho". Well, I worked always until 12:00, then I had like an hour to relax a little bit, before I did several interesting activities in the reserve. For example learning about the Bribri language and culture, visiting nature around the reserve, eating different things with different families and so on. And then in the evening, after dinner I always talked a little bit with my host family (which was good for my Spanish speaking skills) and then fell asleep at 8 or 9pm. Quite early, that is because the days were quite exhausting!
All in all I can say it was a great experience for me, and it could be a great experience for anybody who does not care that there is no hot water, not always electricity, no toilet like in Europe/US, different food, different cultural traditions and so on. It is a place where you can live history!
Alright Wilbur, Nidia; hope to see you again in the future, like I said I will write more and send pictures when I am at home in 2 and a half weeks.
Greetings from Dominical...
Jan
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