beth packed up her stuff and we left the farm today. i can´t believe 3 weeks has gone by already. for the next couple of days i think we´re going to stay with this lady named martha who´s friends with tina and is a breaadmaker and supposedly super buena onda and has phenomenal gardens that are unreal. also tuesday is extra cookie night where you get to eat the leftovers and sometimes there is soccer being played and she has a tv so we can watch movies. so if one of those three things happened i´d be really happy and i think it will be nice. most people have left the farm now, it´s just been 6 or 8 of us. i´ll go back on thursday for a few more days until the swedes get here and then i´m gone too! it´s been a really rewarding time. right now i´m learning a lot about composting and making garden beds and double digging soil and weeding and a little about permaculture and biodynamic techniques. i wish it was more but there are only so many hours of daylight. yesterday was sort of a birthday party for me because we wanted to have a party and people got a little confused. so we made cinnamon buns and had a fire and got sleepy and went to bed at 11. i also bought this tiny instrument called a kalimba from this man Hans who lives on the farm and makes instruments and panella wine. it makes really pretty sounds. i play it every night before i go to sleep. maybe that´s all. oh no, the most important thing, i forgot! i found a cure to mosquito bites! every time i get one i draw a circle around it in ballpoint pen and within an hour it´s disappeared and doesn´´t ever itch again. i guess the pressure of drawing it cuts off the histamine reaction or something. so my legs are covered in circles and everyone laughs at me but it´s totally worth it, the mosquitos here mean business.