We're back in Florida!!!

Well, La Florida to be more precise- a small coffee finca SW of Xela, about an hour from Colomba, the closest “city” that can’t even be found on almost any map. It is rural, and just the way we like it. Granted this also means no electricity, but there is running water-running straight from the river. We came for a week and we’re staying for a month. We are no longer riding the curtails of other organizations, now The GROW Initiative is initiating its own project! Since things do not always go to plan in the developing world, we’ll wait until we really get our big project rolling before the big reveal! But we’ve been doing a lot of different things here like helping out different families with different agriculture projects, teaching them how to update their website and fix their broken email, Brooke has been teaching about the environment in Spanish (interesting considering it’s hard to even hold a conversation!) or teaching English, making chocolate straight from tree to mouth (yum!), getting bit by a goose, and exploring the area, picking fruit along the way.

We’re still turning into corn tortillas, or is it corn tamales that we have more often? Eating with families every meal has been a great way of getting to know lots of people in the community (it took us a while to understand their concept of a week though- they kept saying “Yes, you eat with a family for a week and then you switch to another family” but somehow for us this translated into 5 families over the course of a week… not sure of that math!). The people here are truly amazing.

Tomorrow I think we get to milk a cow and make cheese! Everyone should come visit here, it takes you to a whole different pace and style of life, rather refreshing. (And if you do want more information, check out their website- www.websamba.com/laflorida, (under construction right now) or their blog blogspot.laflorida.com. More to come soon on our projects here, check back and to our GROW site!