There's another volunteer in our group, Cynthia, who's serving in the village of Mastacani. Whenever we need to relax and be among nature, we take a little trip North.... two maxi taxi rides of about 1 hour and a half total time to visit Cynthia. Here are some pictures...
So... Cynthia's water doesn't always work, so she gets to draw water from a well whenever it's not working. In this case, she let us draw the water... fun! (But probably not fun when you would rather take a shower...)
I didn't quite get it right the first time... a lot ended up on my shoe. How it works is really quite cool. You fill it up, and then release the water from the bottom!
Here's Cynthia (who was kind enough to give us this cool country living experience) with Nils hanging out on a little bridge. Does the water look brown? Yeah, it is... we thought about doing a little wading... but the thought of animal excretions stopped us.
Here's my favorite. We saw this women following her flock of geese... who were apparently leading HER home! :) We followed them a little ways, since we were headed in the same direction, and it was just so cool to watch. Anytime they started to stray, the woman would talk to them with little sounds and they would change their direction. And they even made it across a little narrow mud-bridge over a canal! I should have been taking video instead of pictures! Maybe next time....
