Hi everyone, Im finally back on a computer!! So i have had a pretty rough two weeks, but i made i through and right now the group and i are chilling in a little beach/surf town by the name of puerto viejo. But the weather here has been pretty bad because there is a really big tropical storm right on top of us and there was an earth quake in panama causing the ocean to have amazing waves. So we are toughing it out in the rain. The last two weeks have been pretty hard, the turtle project wasnt that great casue it isnt turtle season. I did see a few baby turtles but thats about it. There was also very little food so i survived off of a jar of nutella for the week. After our week of turtles we went to Punta Mona, our supposed yoga retreat but it was actually a perma culture farm where they only eat fruits and vegtables. Which everyone knows how much i like those so i survived on one sandwich and two packetts of soda crackers a day. It has definitly been a really rough two weeks, but we leave for San Jose, Costa Rica tomorrow on the bus. We are planning to be there for three days and then off to Honduras where we are praying for nicer weather. I know this is brief but the rain has let up an i have to run back before the next down pour comes. Hope all is well.
xo soph

Hi everyone,
So it has been a really long time i know but i havent really been able to get to a computer much. So for the last week we have been staying in San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua, at a little place by the name of Parque Maderas. It was a hostel but also a perma culture farm. I is run by this guy named tyler who was super chill, and he just had this idea to start a hotel/hostel that could run on it own. So while we were there we helped out and did some yard work while also going to the beach and relaxing. While there i learned how to surf on the beautiful Playa maderas beach, it was awesome!! All of us girls got to stay in one "dorm" together but the beds were huge, i didnt know what to do with myself. I also managed to break two toes while running aound haha but they are fine. After spending an awesome week in San Juan del Sur, we took a bus down to Costa Rica, where right now we a residing in San Jose its the capital and a really big city. We are only here for a day, and then we are being picked up to go to our turtle project im very excited to see what it going to be like and hopefully ill be able to come back with a baby turtle haha. Hope all is well.
xo sophie

Hello,
So my week in Granada has come to a close. We spent all week studying and roaming around the city. School wasnt so bad, we were able to get our teachers to leave the classroom once in a while, we even had a party on Halloween! The pary we had was pretty amazing, the girls andI made a cake with crazy toppings it was so good. There was also a Piñata which was really fun, it was a witch of course. But the rest of the week flew by. We spent most of our time relaxing and roaming aroung the city. On Wednesday we went on a tour of the lake in a boat, but it was raining and i have never seen so many gnats in my life there was a swarm. So that was ok. But other then that the week went by and we made it through our last week of school. For Halloween we not only had a party but the girls and I went out to mi tierra a local disco teca and we danced the night away we had a blast. My host family was ok, we had a relaly nice house but they didnt really pay much attention to us and they hated it when we came home late so thats always a bummer. Tomorrow we move on to San Juan del Sur, to playa maderas an eco friendly run compoud where we are going to be helping out and doing some work around the place. I wont have internet there so i will tell you how it goes with everything there and the surfing. Hope everyone is well.
xo soph