Going to the Village

So the village thing has finally come together (I think). I've got somewhere to go this week anyway. I'm actually heading out tomorrow afternoon and I'll be back... I'm not really sure when. Hopefully I'll be back on Friday, but I might end up staying out there until Monday-ish. I'm going to be in a village about an hour outside of town on the side of a mountain. I've done some ag work out here before and so I'm staying with the village head. You would think that the village leader would have a nice place, but that isn't the case. I went out there yesterday and talked to everybody and I'm going to be roughing it a little bit for the next few days. It probably won't be too bad, but it is going to be cold. Last night, even before the sun went down, it was getting pretty chilly. I think it is about 1,000 feet above the valley, so the weather is a little bit harsher there. I hit it off with the grandpa that lives at the house though, so I'm sure we'll be doing a lot together this next week. They have a lot of goats in this village and Grandpa was telling me that I can help him watch the goats during the day. So at least I'll have a little something to do, and I might even come away knowing a little bit about goat ranching (if that is even a term. . .). The people there are really nice though, so I'm sure it'll be a good week. Hopefully this will open up a few doors for me to come back and start up some ag projects in the coming months. I think I'm going to start hitting the ag thing pretty hard once February gets here. I've got a friend coming out to live with me and he has an ag degree and worked on a coffee plantation for a few years. So I'm sure we'll find all kinds of things to get into out here. The game plan is that we're going to get some high elevation coffee test plots going and maybe some pigpens and whatever else we can come up with. It should be fun. Oh, and here is video 2 from the wedding.