One Week Tomorrow!

I am so sorry I cannot update much! I am borrowing a charger tonight but the volunteer leaves tomorrow and I will be without a computer for the rest of my journey! I am going to try and update as much as possible with this post.


I arrived on Monday and lived with three other girls in a room with a bathroom (toilet doesn't work). We have 2 small crabs and a tiny kitten living in the room and cockroaches in the bathroom (really, could be worse). However, yesterday two girls left with the tiny kitten (Tika). Everyday is the same routine pretty much with lots of free time. When I arrived there were around 15 volunteers but by Thursday there will only be 4 of us with the volunteer coordinator and her boyfriend. Below is my schedule: (Costa Rica is one hour ahead of Washington time btw)


5:30- get up. 
6:00- cleaning the little platform and feeding the sloths berros and green beans.
9:00- baby time. Take babies and/or 3-toed sloths out for walking or teaching the babies how to climb. 
11:00- vegetable peeling. Possibly the hottest part of the day and hardest part. Just because it is so hot and monotonous. 
2:00- afternoon feeding of vegetables. 
8:30- usually bedtime (went to bed at 11 once, never again). I thought that the other volunteers were joking when they said they went to bed around 8:30, but I was surprised that night that they do. Sometimes earlier because the sun goes down promptly at 6:00 every night and it gets scary after dark (bats, spiders, mosquitoes and more). 


At the moment, each task takes around an hour to do. So other than that, we are free to do whatever we want. Canoe trips, laying down, eating, going to the town an hour away. The hours go by super slow (we joke that what feels like an hour only takes 5 minutes in Costa Rica time) but the days go by super fast. I'm trying to take lots of pictures and will update them all when I get back to the States and back to a charger.


What makes Costa Rica hard: the bugs (already used the bug spray up, you were right grandma! Should have gotten alot more), cannot flush the toilet paper because the sewer system cannot handle it, and the heat. The heat or the bugs is number one because it's miserable to get up and start sweating at 5:30 in the morning and i keep getting eaten alive by the bugs. 


Overall it's been a great experience and I only have 9 days left at the sanctuary. The days have gone by super fast. I will update when I can, and if not, when I get back to the states I will update with stories and information about the sloths and videos and pictures I have taken. Adios!