Hohhhhhhhlahhhhh. Today has been a surprisingly long day, given that it was our day off. I am exhausted and somewhat delirious, but am trying to recall yesterday’s activities so as to catch up here after skipping a day. We went out to the field as normal for the morning. The day started with a slight headache from the aloe vera licour, but nothing terrible. We managed to start and finish up three sections of the balk that had been left untouched, which felt good. We haven’t finished counting the assemblages or the paperwork for the units, but it was nice to accomplish something. We cleaned up the rest of the unit and rigged up gridlines for some photos, cleared away brush and bamboo from the edges and pretty much called it a day. Things have been a bit slow going so far, between a lack of communication and uncertainty of tasks, but I am hopeful that this will improve with the days we are here.
We had a chance to check out this jazz festival that the Technological University of Pereira was hosting. After eating a large and delicious lunch across the street, Jen, Evie, Nico (Carlos and Martha’s 15 yr old son) and I headed downtown to see the bands. Unfortunately, they were still setting up the stage and doing soundchecks when we got there even though we had arrived a bit after the start time listed on the flyer, but we did hear a couple of interesting groups warming up before we decided to bail. It was also starting to rain, and although it didn’t end up doing much, there was a bit of a constant drizzle so we opted to go to the local mall about 4 or 5 blocks away. The mall was interesting, they had some cool stores, but I couldn’t help noticing that a lot of them looked almost identical and merely had a different name, so I guess what I’m saying is there wasn’t too much diversity in the shop choices. In any case, we looked around for a bit before heading up to the top level to the Cinema Victoria. We had some time to kill and thought it might be enjoyable to go to a movie, however the only two films with English subtitles were X-Men and Sin Limites, both of which weren’t playing for a while as well. Instead we decided to see Kung Fu Panda II.....in SPANISH!! This turned out to be a pretty brilliant idea despite the fact that Jen and I are not exactly fluent or even very coherent of Spanish....gotta love cartoons; but no it was really funny, probably funnier than I would have thought had I seen it in English, plus I understood a decent amount of the Spanish, of which I was proud.
After the movie, the four of us headed down to the plaza to check out a tented marketplace there. There were typical sort of goods of wooden jewelry, keychains, leather products, bags and things, but I didn’t buy anything. There were some interesting foods there as well; we got this stuff that sort of tasted like caramel-y ricotta cheese which was surprisingly tasty. We took a taxi back to Pereira to Carlos and Martha’s house and visited for a while (about two beers time haha) although by the time we had arrived, Pat and Tony seemed as if they had had quite a bit of rum.....each of the three bottles on the table were getting down to the dregs. Nico, meanwhile, was busy watching the rest of the football game in the other room of which the National team won. Carlos and Martha’s eldest son, David, whom we met today seemed to have celebrated a little too hard, but it was a really close and exciting game that came down to penalty shots and everything, so I can see why people were so excited over the victory in general.
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