Last Day of "Freedom"

Today was nice and relaxing. I had no responsibilities other than simply enjoying my last day before classes. There was nothing absolutely earth shattering that occurred today although I did take my first real steps into the forest today!!! That was before it starting raining quite heavily haha. Since we had the afternoon off, we students at QERC decided it would be nice to venture into the forest for the first time today. Everything started off great. There weren't too many signs that it was going to rain as far as I could tell. This false sense of security caused us to venture out into the forest in shorts, t-shirts, and our cameras without our rain jackets because it was just supposed to be a two hour hike there and back. Well about twenty minutes or so into the forest it began to very lightly mist. That should have been our first sign of course, be we continued onward. About thirty minutes into our hike there began a good, steady rain. Luckily one member of our group was prepared with a backpack and their rain jacket. This meant we were at least able to put our cameras in his backpack and the pack was covered by his rain jacket. In that respect everything worked out, and this was definitely a learning experience for future trips into the forest. This is a rainforest of sorts so I guess I should have expected that even though this is the dry season haha. Other than the rain ending our hike early because we were unprepared everything was great. The forest was absolutely beautiful. It almost seemed too good to be true that I was actually able to witness such an amazing work of God. An untouched piece of His marvelous creation. It is just too difficult to adequately describe with words. Pictures will definitely be posted as I am able to take them. I had planned on taking some good pictures today, but as I mentioned earlier the rain was sort of a hindrance to that activity haha. But I plan on taking plenty of pictures on my future treks into the forest. Overall I would say it was a successful day! 

Well classes start tomorrow. How many people can actually say they are attending school in the rainforest? Not too many...but I sure can haha!! It is a little bittersweet, as I am sure I have mentioned on a previous post, but I have to step into reality as some point right? Although I will admit my classes and studying being in a rainforest takes away some of the sting of school. Either way, tomorrow officially starts the semester.

¡Pura Vida!