Day 7 (Wednesday)
We woke up at 7am and got ready for our work day. That morning the owners told me that Marta was not working so I needed to be in charge of a lot of the cleaning for the day. This meant sweeping, mopping, cleaning bathrooms, changing sheets, doing laundry, etc again. I was anxious about this because I felt like once again…I’m the maid….when I thought I was going to be working with people. However, even though none of those tasks are fun I had the independence to work on my own, at my own pace and clean in my own way! That felt good, and it made the experience much more tolerable. I didn’t feel like I was in the way or doing everything wrong. I was happy to be able to help out with cleaning in my own way and everything looked great then I was done! It took more time doing it alone but it was worth the freedom. Earlier that morning the two guests from the night before checked out. They were fun to have around, very hippy like attitudes and free spirits. They left one of the workers an entire cooler full of pot! I didn’t understand what was going on at first, but they were being weird and so was the worker…the worker told the lodge owner that he was given the cooler and would be taking it home….while the lodge owner was claiming well you work for us so technically the cooler is ours…..little did the lodge owner know what was in the cooler!! So long story short the guests kept insisting to the lodge owner that the cooler was only for the worker and in the end he got to keep it and the lodge owners never found out what was in the cooler. Pot is illegal here in Costa Rica and the lodge owners do not allow its use on the property but Steve and I did not feel it is our place as volunteers to let the owners know what was going on…this guy has worked here for a while and will continue working here and we didn’t want to add any tension or make any awkward situations when we are just volunteers for 7 weeks. Day 5 or Wednesday was our last day of work before our four day weekend!! That night we packed what we needed in a small backpack. The next morning we were going to catch a ride in to town with the lodge owners.
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