I have a job interview, at Prime Bistro restaurant and cafe. Thats about the extent of the exciting my life in New Zealand is taking shape news. My favorite street is Lorne street, it goes directly to the library. It's a small narrow street filled with cafes, book shops, art galleries, chinese restaurants, and the Korean pancake stand where they make you pancakes filled with vegtables, meat, or fruit. In a way it reminds me of a smaller, more compact version of ...

A wild boar and a bathroom break Just last week we did mamal monitering which i when you get up at 5am have breakfast and then spend the entire morning (until 1pm) walking very slowly throug h the jungle hoping to spot some animals and then record their location and activity. Essentially it is the mother of all nature walks. The morning started off pretty good we saw a tapir which is pretty rare to see. THey`re adorable baby hippo/elephant things, it ran righ...

Salvacion and a conversation about the meaning of lost cause After dinners at MLC we`ve gotten in to the habit of having a little english/spanish exchange with Herol and Johny and somehow got on the conversation of the meaning of ``Lost Cause¨ Either as a joke or something that no longer has any hope. So today when we pulled into Slavacion and Herol says Salvacion a lost cause? I had to think. To anyone who hasn`t seen Salvacion you can imagin a sinding dusty ...

A List of Jungle Experiences Stepping on roaches, having roaches fall on you, roaches in the coco powder, roaches in your bed, roaches in the shower, roaches in your wardrobe, roaches in your bag. But it´s ok they only come out at night. Riding in the back of a pickup truck to Salvacion. Extreme banana plantation reforestation....on the side of a mountain. Rafting in the river...and then swimming fully clothed...and almost getting squashed against a rock. ...

Well one month has past and I´m back in Cusco for a weeks vacation with Paula, the resident naturalist at MLC who is working on setting up a medicinal plant garden. It´s been so long since an update not really sure where to start so I guess I´ll start at the begining. The bus ride through the Andes. It takes about 12 to 13 hours on a tiny, winding, bumpy road (not fun when your still sick from the Malaria tablets). The view is amazing and we were passing throu...