Tues 12 Jan

Today was my first day at the Finca Organica. I woke up at 5am and biked about a mile down the main road in the poring rain to get to the finca. When I got there I met three workers who were sitting in a porch waiting for the rain to die down. I met Santo, Ciena, and Jorge. They gave me a tour of the whole farm, then we got to work. My first task was to help Santo dig up Yucca, which is some sort of potato. After I helped him clean out the Chicken houses. The first house had about 24 chickens. The second one had about 295 chickens. They were very funny because when we let them out to roam around their yard, they would follow you because they thought you had food. My next assignment was to pick up all the old and used coconuts on the ground near and around the chicken houses. The coconuts were a big part of the chickens diet so there were wheel barrow loads of coconuts. Next we carried huge sacks of feed on our backs for the chickens that had to have weighed at least 150 pounds. Once that was all taken care of, work was finished and I then biked home. Later I chilled with Matt and downloaded some more music. Then read and went to bed.