Hola from Central Farms in Cayo!
Bright and early Friday morning we arrived at the El Paso airport, most of us anyway. One member of our team didn’t hear her alarm and had her phone on silent. Luckily she was able to make the flight to Dallas one hour later and just make it onto the flight to Belize City. Yesterday we made it through customs without any trouble at all and we got to the University of Belize Central Farm where we are staying. For dinner last night we had rice and beans, stewed chicken, potato salad, and fry plantain with spice cake dessert.
Today we woke up at 7 and had breakfast at 8 of homemade tortillas, beans, eggs, bacon, cheese and papaya. We went to the market, this is best described as a combination of a flea market and a farmers market. There we ate papoosas (which are homemade tortillas filled with beans, cheese and chicken before they are cooked), tamarind, tamale, and plantain chips. DELICIOUS. This is where we did most of our souvenir shopping for all of you back home.
Today after the market we went to a Mennonite community and ate there, we had pierogies.
At the community we visited a field of beans attacked by thrips, then a chicken producer (also eggs), then we went and ate ice cream. Next we went to the store and got hand tools for the gardening class at the Ag high school we are going to later this week. The last stop was at a small dairy where we watched them milk and the wife filled some of our water bottles with raw milk. We came home to the dorms and ate dinner of t-bones cooked with vegetables, rice and potatoes washed down with cold watermelon juice.
After dinner we had a presentation my Arnoldo from the Friends of Conservation and Development organization here in BZ.
please tell that one student that was fashionably late to her flight,i won't mention any name..... that her friend Gina says hola from NY and that I"m following the blog!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who this late person was????? The food sounds delicious as well.
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