so we´re back in vilcabamba for a few hours. things on the farm got a little crazy this past week but they´re good again. i found out i had parasites, i think from bolivia but maybe from the farm, but i took a bunch of medicine and they´re dead and i have so much more energy than i´ve had in a while. then last thursday tina (the lady who owns the farm) was coming home late at night alone and slipped in the creek and dislocated her kneecap really bad. then the next day since it was the weekend everybody else on the farm went to town for this healing ceremony and beth and i were left alone on the farm for the whole weekend to take care of tina without any medicine or anything. that was kind of weird and i thought about leaving but it´s ok now and everyone´s back and we´re doing lots of work again. yesterday i made a bunch of quiches and black capped raspberry pie. we eat like queens here. or more like we feast. my lostboy name is not "la quiche" cause they liked it so much. i´ve been doing lots of hard work digging out beds to put in new gardens which means serious baretta work but i´m getting strong. we bathe in the creek every day which probably couldn´t be more beautiful or refreshing. it´s kind of like one of those weird cliche utopias except that it´s not at all. i think we´re gonna go to this biological reserve this weekend and then i only have one more week! i don´t know what else. i discovered this totally new type of fruit called palmarosa which is literally the taste of biting into a rose. and there are surinam cherries that are like cherries mixed with tomatoes and passion fruit and papaya and pomegrantite and dates and zapote and oranges and grapefruits and a million other things. i´m reading really good books and drawing some pictures and waking up early. we wake up at 7 every day and hang out and eat breakfast until 8 or 9, then work in the gardens or collecting fruit or cooking until 12:30 then eat and go for a swim then work again until 5 or so, swim, cook and eat dinner by candlelight at dusk, practice salsa and go to bed at 9 or 10. i wish i could put up pictures. maybe i´ll upload some sometime soon. hasta pasta.