'Wed 30th Septmeber

Wed was experiencia for the students and I was glad to have more people help at the Lecheria. I worked with Roberto and lineath. Our first job was to brush and clean the baby water buffalo which was a task and a half. Not only did they not want to be brushed, they didn’t want to be near us either. After a while, the baby water buffalo clamed down and it was easy to brush them. While we were brushing them, Roberto helped me with a name for my friend who was the baby calf. We named her Nena, which means cutie or something like that in Spanish. After we retrieved about 30 cows from the field and took them to the Lecheria for milking. Then we put food in the long food bed for the cows. Once everything was finished, everyone started heading over to the pig farm. I didn’t know why but I followed. To my horror, Luis was going to do a class on how to castrate a baby pig. The whole class was in a small stall and watching closely on how to do it because they would be doing it after Luis's example. Luis caught the first baby pig, hung it upside down by its two hind legs, and then tied the two legs to the wall. They baby pig was screaming and going wild but Luis didn’t notice as he was getting the rubbing alcohol. He rubbed the alcohol to clean the area that he was going to cut into. On moment later he had his pocket knife out and was cutting a straight line between the pigs testis. Then one by one he popped both of the testes out with his fingers and then cut them from the pig. At this point, I was about ready to vomit, so I decided to leave this horrible scene and go and get some fresh air. After the students were done with there class, we all went to lunch at the cafeteria. I wasn’t that hungry after what I had seen only 20min before lunch but I couldn’t pass up the ice cream that was being handed out. When I tried it, I was surprised. It wasn’t ice cream at all, it was gross. It tasted like a watered down ice cream with more ice then cream. After lunch I finished work, went home, and then went to dinner. After dinner, Tanner and I went to yoga. I loved it and felt like I was improving. I’m thinking about doing yoga throughout the week to become stronger and get more flexible.