Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Las Cruces

After six long, bumpy hours on a bus (fortunately quite comfortable and airconditioned) we arrived at the OTS Las Cruces station about 10km from the Panamanian border on the Pacific side. It was, of course, rainy and cloudy when we arrived, but there was a break in the weather so we unloaded our luggage without getting wet.  Despite the clouds and the rain, the station is really quite beautiful. We are staying in dorms at the original house which is right in the middle of the original botanical gardens. The walk down to the dinning hall is a quite windy, but interspersed with beautiful flora and fauna. I keep waiting for sunshine to take pictures, but cloudy ones might have to do!

We've all settled in quite nicely; there are 4-6 people per room and we have a big common area where we are currently all doing our readings for tomorrow (or facebooking and blogging!). I finally unpacked and reorganized some. It seems silly to unpack for just a week, but I literally had one sock in one bag and its pair in the other, so it had to be done. That has definitely helped the OCD side of me that was longing for shelves and organization.

We joke that we are turning into old people--it's 8:30 and most of us are in our pj's and thinking about heading to bed, but with breakfast bright and early at 6:30 a.m. we have to have an early bedtime. Tomorrow after breakfast we are headed into town to finally buy snake boots, notebooks, etc. so hopefully by being out in the morning we'll beat the rain! Classroom time starts tomorrow afternoon, but I haven't really seen a schedule for the rest of the week (kind of driving me nuts, but I'm being flexible!).  


1 comment:

  1. So it's not just on mission trips that you have to be flexible, but anywhere in Latin America! Glad you are feeling a little bit settled. Love you!

    ReplyDelete