This morning I woke up with a bit of a headache, probably from being overtired, so our lecture was a little difficult for me to get through. It was given by a really sweet woman from an indigenous tribe here called the Bribri. She spoke to us about her culture, the changes brought by modernization, and her project to repopulate green iguanas, a lizard very important to the Bribri people. After the lecture we took a look at the iguanas (there were so many!) and then headed to the beach.
I took a nap on the ride, so I was feeling better by the time we arrived at the ocean. There we loaded on the sunscreen, played in the waves and sand, and had a wonderful picnic. The fruit we had was AMAZING, and I ate lots of pineapple :) The LASP staff took us to a private-ish beach, so it was incredibly clean and uncrowded. We had fun laying in the sand and watching the monkeys play in the trees above us.
After a few hours at the beach, we returned to the hotel and got cleaned up for dinner at the Black Star Line community center. The Black Star Line was started by Marcus Garvey as part of his “back to Africa” movement during the civil rights movement. The place was basically a huge open room with a stage where a calypso band played for a few hours while we ate and danced. Everyone had lots of fun and afterward we all went out in search of ice cream. We were shocked to find nearly every store in town closed at 9:00 on a Saturday night! The lack of ice cream put an end to our night out, so Haleigh and I went up to our room to try and get lots of rest before heading back to San Jose tomorrow.
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