Chapter Three - Jail Cells and Sugar Cane

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Trekking through muddy pasture trails, behind concrete village homes and through barbed wire fences, dodging the soggiest spots in a near vain attempt to maintain dry shoes, we made our way to the “jail cell” situated behind a sugar cane field about a half mile from our dorm.  An 8 foot tall barred and bolted concrete room containing pipes and electrical wires, we hoisted ourselves on the cement roof.


Now standing above the sugar cane, we had a full view of the surrounding valley. Mountains dotted the skyline; the clouds encasing the nearest while blurring the distant ones. A cool breeze skurried through the tops of the cane and ran through our hair, cooling us and peacefully whisking away the heat and stress of the day.


We sat there on the roof for 40 odd minutes, filling the quiet with stories and issues from the day and the semester.  Beckoned home too soon, we returned home to just miss the sunset.

I munched on a stick of cane on the walk home. I will see the sunset another day.

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