Last week we did work that was pretty different from the work we've done before. We worked in a forest reserve, which is basically all the area around the adventure park where we went ziplining last month. We created trails for groups of students and volunteers that will study the area for the climate change impact. They're going to try to figure out what all the environmental changes are and why they're happening. The trail making was hard physical work and even though we did hard work on the farm, this time we were right smack in the middle of the forest. Taking out all the roots and branches to make a trail is really hard. It was all fun, though, at least for me. One thing that was not so fun were all the bugs but hey, siempre tiene que haber un pelo en la comida (a spanish saying that means "there always has to be a hair in the food"). We basically had to bathe ourselves in bug spray. Although it was fun sometimes the feeling of destroying parts of nature kind took hold of us. I think it helped to focus on the fact that we were mainly taking out small roots and leaves to make a narrow trail for a much bigger project. I really liked the work we did and I thought it was awesome to swing a hoe in the middle of a cloud forest.
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