Finally some more Photos

Okay, beans are one of the most important crops here so I wanted to show the process of growing them from planting to plate, so we start with plowing the field with oxen (on the hills they plant by hand)

They get together with family, friends, paid workers, etc. to plant by hand ( you can see Peluche helping on the left)

Freshly planted field

Vibrantly green new plants

Okay we´re skipping a bit here, but this is the harvesting, you yank up the plant, let it dry a bit and then wack the pods so the beans come out

I lasted about 5 minutes

Then you bathe your children in the beans, just kidding, but someone was bored here and thought it might be fun

Then you eat your beans with tortilla and maybe cheese, for just about every meal. Bon Apetit!

This is the pitahaya plant a.k.a dragon fruit, its a wandering cactus, and these white flowers eventually turn into the fruit you see in the following 2 pictures, we made a jam from it, but its really good raw

This is the fruit- marañon a.k.a cashew, the little part hanging off the fruit is where the nut is, they also use the fruit to make juice or eat raw

Cracking open the shells

the final product- roasted cashews

Hello! It´s been a while since I´ve written anything on this, for various reasons- one because I´m lazy, two because I´ve had camera problems and I didn´t want to write without pictures- thats boring:) So finally I found a solution to my first camera problem, but the day after I did that I dropped my camera, telephone, MP3 player and electronic dictionary in the ocean- and nothing works so their won´t be anymore new pictures for a little while- these are all from before the incident. I´ll write little descriptions by the photos, but otherwise everything is going pretty good, I can´t believe its been a year already, but I am enjoying it and already getting a little sad thinking about leaving. So I hope you all find the photos interesting- if anyone reads this that is:) Adios.