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where the pepper grows ...

After three weeks it secretive for me again Time for a post.

As announced took place two weeks ago Pintaflores the festival and it was something powerful going on in the small San Carlos. There was a large parade of dancers groups in colorful costumes, dancing many, stationed along the way judges in competition. And in the midday sun! In addition, outside the town hall until late into the night concerts played and there was a large firework that was ended by the onset of torrential rain.

have the following week to visit Charlotte and I made together with colleagues on a trip to Bacolod to another biological demonstration farm that we are far ahead in the compost production. We both decided this for the ride in the back of the pick-ups, which are less well padded, but better ventilated and frozen by any air conditioning system. The thing is, that the journey time along the winding highway at least one and a half hours and the driver of the Foundation nicknamed the "Pilot" not by holding otherwise. But the view and the breathtaking night sky on the way back, the rest made bearable.

Last weekend on Saturday there was a large birthday party of another wwf, which was celebrated with national custom karaoke and suckling pig.

The next morning it still managed the most out of the bed along with some fellow teachers at another WWF and some students a trip to waterfalls south of San Carlos to do. Even if the arrival and the running of rice and grilled chicken as food took a while was forget the trouble when we reached the fantastically beautiful destination of the trip.

Surrounded by seemingly nearly pristine rain forest, we came across a small lake which was fed by a waterfall and, as a waterfall, went further. There was also deep enough to jump in from the adjoining rocks, and further up was even a kind of natural Jacuzzi are for one person. We spent the rest of the afternoon there and ate the delicious food brought, his legs dangling in the cool water. And even before we started the way back I had decided to come back in any case ...

Last Wednesday we were offered the opportunity to attend the visit of a staff member of a English NGO to the farmers in more remote areas in the mountains. So we got an insight into how far the concepts of our model farm are effectively implemented and some beautiful farms to face. (Heinz Erhardt would be proud of me:) I also saw
for the first time how and where the pepper grows! The origin of the above proverb, I was able to easily keep track ... But of course there were also a lot of beautiful rice terraces, sugarcane, maize, banana, papaya, cauliflower, broccoli, Melons and even cocoa!

Immediately the next day waiting for the next highlight directly on us. On that day, the inauguration and blessing of the model farm place along with the recently completed Muskovado factory. For this purpose, were not only the officials of local politics and to be financed by NGOs but also the farmers' group head and the Bishop of San Carlos! After a few solemn words of the blessed bishop Finally, every building and every workplace, including our jobs and our rooms.

After that there was a great feast, of course, again blood soup with pork and related.

can add here is still good that I now even most, have tried from a European perspective dubious culinary delights. So I have to eat on feathers and beak pretty much all body parts and organs of a chicken, including feet ("addidas", based on the form), and intestine. But the rest, including bone, I'll take sooner or later to me as "Balut", a duck's egg hatched about 14-18 days, which is sold on the streets at night than a delicacy.

Those are the notable features of recent weeks.
My work in the lab is now up and running all right and some steps are already routine. Apart from the potatoes, I will probably deal next week, with bananas, as some farmers have expressed interest in seedlings. As far as the latest from Negros.