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I continued to be inspired by the local BriBri natives. They always just seem so serene and peaceful going about their day inspite of being discriminated against and most being very uneducated by North American standards and living in poverty.
Just the other day, I saw my worker, Alfredo who is a local Bri Bri teen going off into the jungle with a home made slingshot. I thought WOW, that’s what I used to do when I was a kid, shoot pop bottles and beer cans or whatever with buddies and a sling shot. I asked him where he was going. He told me he was going into the Jungle to get an iguana for dinner. I was so surprised that all I could think of is the closest us North Americans get to idea of hunting for freshly killed game is to head to the local farmers or public market where we can see them actually cutting our meat or fish.
Not long ago an amazing feature was published in the Tico Times with photos featuring the daily lives of a couple local indigenous families. The photos were shot by a young American woman named Maise Crow. They were just to good not to share, so I recieved permission from her to share them on my blog.
If you are interested, you can view them here;
http://colinsito.blogs.com/photos/bribri/index.htmlYes, the indigenous are indeed amazing people, definitely ‘tranquilo’ and just about anything that comes their way is taken in stride. I had the amazing opportunity to get to know some of the people whose photos are shown on your blog; my children attended school with Alejandro, the little boy featured eating a piece of cacao. They’re great kids, a lot different from North American children. I noticed that when they are playing and one of them gets hurt accidentally, there is no hitting the other guy back, or crying and screaming, as most children we are used to, but even at such a young age, they take everything as it comes. My children were fortunate to be able to interact with several BriBri children at El Puente where we volunteered many Saturdays last summer (while we were living in Puerto Viejo) and they also attended school with Alejandro and his siblings. If you’re interested in the BriBri, check out the web site set up by Barry Stevens. It’s http://www.elpuente-thebridge.org and tells you a lot about the work they are doing in Puerto Viejo.
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