Littlewood´s Law

I think that syncronicity is pretty cool, and today I stumbled upon something about Littlewood´s Law. Statistically, when dealing in very large numbers, like seconds, probability says that once a month it is normal to experience what would be deemed a miracle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law. Totally sweet, right?

I guess that means I can expect a couple miracles while I am here. With luck, one of these miracles will be making friends. I live in a tiny town, almost two miles uphill, in the rainforest, and then from there, on a farm with a small community of farmworkers. This is really cool for the work side of my trip, as well as the biological side (I am getting really asorbed whenever there is work to do and seeing lots of amazing things that wouldn´t exist if there were a ton of people around). Unfortunately, there is not a high probability of my making friends while I am here. As my Spanish improves, I am beginning to notice that people don´t really like me around here. The only Americans they experience are tourists, and to them, I am just like all of those people. Additionally, almost everybody I encounter here are married couples, and my presence seems to be causing problems. All of the women who work at Luna Nueva are really cold towards me because their husbands stare at me all the time. I don´t want to talk to their husbands because it will only make things worse. There is nobody here under 25, with the exception of my new little sister, and nobody who is unmarried. I guess I am going to have to get used to being alone a lot.

On the other side of things, I have been getting a lot of cool work done. I have put myself in charge of marketing and outreach, which gives me an opportunity to be social, at least via the internet and telephone. Today I emailed a couple of blogs and magazines in the US to see if anybody wanted to write a story about the farm and resort. Also today I helped Juan Artista and Steven plan out next season´s planting area while pigs walked around us and ate all the roots of the dying plants from the last harvest. Pigs are really weird and social and are always very boldly walking around and following people places. Also, I made some great pasta sauce today with the basil and tomatoes from the garden and had a fantastic lunch! Yesterday Leo and I moved twenty bags of compost and then spread all of it on each of the 250 plants in the medicinal plant sanctuary. By the end, I was completely covered in dirt. My hands were black! I had Giselle take a picture of me before I showered and I am going to post it tomorrow when I bring my camera to work.

Honestly, I have been pretty frustrated here but I am trying to look on the bright side. There is nowhere else that I am supposed to be right now, and I have school to do online, books to read, photos to take, a lot of half-written stories to finish, and a huge forest to explore. Honestly, I am probably not going to make friends here. That´s okay, though. Being here is not about being social, it is about learning and growing and there is no better way to grow than through spending a lot of time alone. Or, if anybody wants to come visit, you can stay anywhere on the (always empty) resort for free and we can go ziplining and river rafting and I will show you the rainforest and make you lots of meals. Tempting, right?