The coffe planation was my favorite thing we've done so far. We walked all around the fields and the facilities, learning how coffee is actually made. The workers do not earn much- about 8 dollars per day during the good season. They also have to pay three dollars a day for their food.
There was a spaniard on the tour who talked funny and was really interested in american ownership of shotguns. He said he was in america, and in the paper there were stories about people shooting each other with shotguns.
Our tour guide loved president uribe and thought hugo chavez was a loco. She said she welcomed america building bases all along the venezuela border, so that the guerillas couldn't cross the border to safety with hugo chavez the loco. It's weird to hear people talk about your country as something disconnected from you completely. I had no idea about the America-building-bases-on-the-venezuela-border issue, and even if I saw it in the news it would only stick in my head half a second if I hadn't been here. But to people abroad, even the smallest blip on our TV news can be a life-or-death matter.
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