Park cleanup for Earth Day

This morning I went to a cleanup event organized by the US Consulate, the other Peace Corps Volunteer, and a local school. We were celebrating Earth Day, so we cleaned up a stretch of road in a part of the park called La Huasteca. This was the hand-painted sign welcoming the cleanup-crew to the park.



About 100 people showed up, and we collected a ton of trash. Here is a picture of the final pile of Team 1 (my team!). Multiply the pile by three, and you get an idea of how much trash we picked up in total. Unfortunately it was a small percentage of the total trash in the park. We drove around afterwards and saw a lot more trash sitting by the side of the road.



During the morning, I also stumbled upon two scorpions when I turned over a rock. They were fairly small, but one of the park employees picked them up by their tails with his Leatherman.