2nd Mayo, 2014,
5:05pm
This morning we climbed one of the mountains that over-looks
Candelaria, as we have finished most of what we needed to do while here. We walked through Barrio San Francisco on the
way (between us and the landfill), which was really cool because it was going
past a bunch of houses. It was nice to
see a neighborhood that wasn't the downtown area. And of course, this morning our three little
friends met up with us. They insisted on
holding my hand all the way to the landfill [which proved difficult as there
were three of them and I only have two hands].
At the landfill we decided that our friends shouldn't follow us up the
mountain. One wasn't wearing shoes and
we didn't have enough water to last for everyone. Nick’s shoe was falling apart at the landfill,
so he decided to head back and was going to take the boys with him. However, we were hanging out at the landfill
for so long that the boys got bored and shouted “adios!” as they scampered off
down the road. Shortly after that, we
went up the path for the mountain.
We weren't even fifty feet up the path when we heard some
voices behind us and, who else, but our friends. They ran up the first hundred feet with
enough speed and dexterity that it could put a goat to shame. The one still had no shoes. When we asked if they had enough water to
make it up the mountain, Marlo produced a large green pod from his back-pack,
passing it around, showing us how to eat the exterior of the seeds.
For the rest of the climb, the four of us [me, Luis, Liz and
Gus] looked like the struggling mountain climbers we were, while the three boys
would run ahead, bounding from rock to rock – they even had enough time to
climb a few trees and show us which plants were edible.
The two plants that we ate the most on the climb were the
green pods and these yellow berries that had an apple-y taste to them. We just hoped that everything they were
feeding us wasn’t poisonous….but I am able to write this, so I think that I am
fin…going to take a bit of a break now and will hopefully get back to writing
more tonight…
JLC
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