UPEACE

So yesterday was a pretty cool and relaxing day.  Started off with a fast breakfast and rushed to pile everyone into the car so we could get to the bus stop for the free shuttle that takes you to the United Nations University for Peace, a graduate school located just outside of Ciudad Colon that was created by....the United Nations.  The idea behind it was that we have so many schools to teach about war and fighting, (ie naval academy, military schools, things like that) but there is no school to teach about peace.  So now there is a school that teaches about peace.  Anyways, riding up the mountain to the university it got to a ponit where all you would see is just hundreds, maybe even thousands of coffee plants, just covering the mountain side all the way up.  Once we got there, we went on a small tour of the school though for some reason, everyone got stopped up at the library and everyone grabbed a book and sat down to read for a bit.  After that, one of the other wwoofers here decided that he really wanted to sit in on a lecture. So we found a professor and made that happen. The lecture was on the subject of Terrorism in the Muslim Context, causes developments and things of that nature.  It was very interesting.  After that, we had lunch at the cafeteria. It was the first time I have had any meat in costa rica and I guess i kind of had been missing it. Though not I hadn´t noticed I was.  After that, some people decided to go back to the farm and work myself along with a few others settled on hiking up the rest of the mountain to a lookout point.  The hike was pretty easy and the view from the lookout point was amazing.  After taking in the view, we headed back down, deciding to take the jungle path rather than the more easy path we took up. The path was very cool and allowed for some nice pictures of some plant life and things like that. We got turned around for a bit but managed to make it out in time to catch our bus back to Ciudad Colon.  from there we walked around town a bit, had a beer, and walked back to the farm.  all in all I would have to say that it was a pretty good day.  I am still in the process of planning my trip but every time I get off the farm, i get more excited to get off the farm for a longer period of time.