Today was Independence Day in Costa Rica. Each school performs in the parade around town. The following video clips are of our students in the band and the baton girls. The older baton girls in white are in high school and the little ones in red are from the elementary (many of them are from my class). The band sounded really good live, but on the video it sounds pretty bad.

Me, Heidi, Erica, Bethany and Jenn
Cool insect

Two green grasshoppers

Heidi and Jenn
Big toad
Spider in my bedroom
glass wing butterfly

video clips

Here are a couple of small video clips. Sorry about the poor quality.

The first one is a clip of the cloudforest from the bus window. The second is a view of the beginning of the road that my house in on...part of my daily walk to and from school.

This next video is of howler monkeys. My friend is making the nearby sound to get them started.

I came home for a short visit and was able to update my blog. You'll have to do a lot of scrolling, but hopefully you'll enjoy the pics!

Liz

In front of the entrance to the school

The greenhouse at school
A strangler fig. It starts like a vine coming down from the top of a tree and then surrounds the tree and "eats" it. The hollow part is where a tree used to be.
Our playground at school
A scorpion found in my classroom
White-faced monkey
Santa Elena (the main town by my school)

A hole in the rock island off of "Islas Tortugas" - we took a boat through it

Liz and Heidi sitting on a palm tree off of turtle island
now those are some carrots
View of the Pacific Ocean
sideways picture of an orchid


sunset from my house

Liz, Heidi and Erica in Curu
monkeys
beach to ourselves in Curu
Sand crabs

Arenal volcano

Big leaf!
Rainforest and waterfall near San Rafael
hummingbird

Farmland on the way to Tilaran

pretty flower
view from the rainforest by my house
cool crab