Next Two Weeks

We leave late tonight for our bus trip to Canoa. Pray for good health. Jessica has been sick with stomach problems the last three days. She had to miss the last half of spanish classes this morning. The rest of us are also not feeling as well today. We must have eaten or drank something bad the last couple days.

We learned more today about our plans to travel and study in the jungle. We will be living in a small indigenous Indian village and will be participating in traditional village activities. We will be taking a three day trip into the deep jungle. The first night we will stay in another Indian village. We will get there by a one hour ride in the back of a pickup and then a one hour walk to a river. At the river, we will paddle canoes for 4-5 hours down the river into the jungle until we arrive at the village. On the second day, we will take motorized canoes 2-3 hours up another river until we arrive at a camping place by the river. We will sleep on the ground in tents. This will be a stretching experience for Judy and I. We will have an Indian guide with us in addition to our five private Spanish teachers to give us lessons each day.

Since we get back from Canoa Saturday night and need to leave for the jungle Sunday morning at 6:30, we may not be able to have access to the internet for the next two weeks. We return from the jungle, the following Saturday night, July 28.