Päätin sittenkin testata vieläkö "puhtaaksikirjoitus" onnistuu ja löytyykö sitä nuoruuden vauhtia. Taitaa se kymmensormijärjestelmä olla kuin polkupyörällä ajoa - kerran kun sen oppii kunnolla, sen hallitsee lopun ikäänsä.
Lost In The Jungle - ote aikajanasta perjantai 28.03.2014 - tiistai 01.04.2014
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
Although Kris and Lisanne had not arrived in Boquete yet, Marjolein, location manager of the language school in Boquete, calls Maria Elena Q., the director of Guardaría Aura, about the upcoming volunteer work. They arrange that Marjolein will hear on Monday morning March 31, when Kris and Lisanne can start that week. Conversely, Marjolein will pass on to them whether the women want to work full days or half.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
Kris and Lisanne enter hostel Mamallena (an organization that owns a chain of hostels) in Bocas to get a ride on a shuttle bus to Boquete. They pay thirty dollars to Cesar C. [Tästäkin on esitetty huhuja, että bussikuski olisi ollut Felicianon opaskaveri Plinio Montenegro], a driver from Miguel G's transport company providing the shuttle service. During the trip they are accompanied by Eileen, a young German woman who did an internship at the language school in Bocas and is now continuing her internship in Boquete. Eileen will fill in for Marjolein, who in turn has been transferred to the branch in Turralbia, Costa Rica. So the three will have been acquainted for a week or two.
At 3:30 pm Kris and Lisanne arrive at the bus station in Boquete. At four o'clock they are picked up by Myriam and her son.
[Oliko päiväkirjoissa merkintä, että he eivät olisi menneet bussiasemalle saakka, vaan jääneet pois jo aiemmin, ennen Boqueten keskustaa?]
Once the women have settled in with the host family, they briefly meet at the language school. On this occasion Marjolein explains where Guardaría Aura is located. Kris and Lisanne then walk to the daycare center, which is located within walking distance of Spanish by the river, out of curiosity about where they will be working that Monday.
That evening, Kris and Lisanne talk to the Guerra family. Fortunately the oldest daughter speaks English, so they can communicate more easily. The women are exhausted. The journey was tiring and the change of scenery has affected Lisanne in particular. She feels sad and is homesick. That night they go to bed early.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30
Kris and Lisanne feel a lot better after a good night sleep. They have breakfast with French toast and then head off to the language school for the standard welcome speech. During the welcome Marjolein tells them that they are expected at Aura from Monday 31 March onward. Their first day of work will start at 1 pm. Marjolein asks Eileen if she wants to call Aura that morning to confirm Kris and Lisanne's start that day at 1 pm. She tells Kris and Lisanne they will be contacted on Monday morning via their host parents to let them know if Aura agrees with the day and time set.
During the welcome talk, Kris and Lisanne tell her that they would like to climb to volcano Barú. They are also interested in a coffee tour, the Caldera Hotsprings and the Hidden Waterfalls. The waterfalls are at the top of their wish list; before they flew to Panama, they looked up information about it. Marjolein then tells them that the language school works with a fixed guide: Feliciano Gonzalez. He offers various hikes, including the Barú, Sendero de los Quetzales and Sendero el Pianista hikes.
- - - [tässä kohdassa Kris ja Lisanne keskustelevat Marjoleinin kanssa eri vaellusreiteistä yms.]
After the talk they go "to explore the city" as Lisanne writes. They walk around, do some shopping at the Romero supermarket, visit the grounds of the Coffee and Flower Fair and Caldera, which, thanks to the drought of the previous weeks, has shrunk to a narrow stream that on some photographs disappears behind the vegetation. In the afternoon, they have lunch at the since then closed Bistro Boquete, on a balcony on the second floor. In photos taken during this lunch, we see Lisanne studying a tourist map of the area. Later that afternoon, they visit the language school again to look at excursions and in the evening they have dinner in restaurant Fusion.
MONDAY, MARCH 31
While Lisanne's Samsung is being charged, she lies in a hammock and looks at a map of the area. [Kertoiko Feliciano jossain lausunnossa nähneensä tytöt tällöin?]At the request of Kris and Lisanne, Eileen books a tour to Barú at Gonzalez for the upcoming Saturday, April 5. Later that morning, Kris and Lisanne search in the language shcool's computer for information about the Pianista Trail; in the process, they look at some satellite images of the trail.
Around 10 pm [virhe - am][/b], Eileen and Marjolein go to a computer store. Since they are in the neighborhood of Aura anyway, they pass by the day care center. There Maria Elena tells them that Kris and Lisanne will not be able to start that week. She has obligations in David and will not be around enough to guide the women properly. Marjolein protests that the volunteer work was agreed upon and that Kris and Lisanne are eager to start, but that doesn't change the matter, there is an unforeseen emergency.
Immediately Marjolein and Eileen go to Casa Esperanza to ask if Kris and Lisanne might be able to start there that week, but the coordinator of the volunteer work is not there. As promised, Marjolein then tries to call Myriam Guerra to inform Kris and Lisanne, but Myriam doesn't answer. Finally, Marjolein asks Eileen to inform Kris and Lisanne as soon as she's back at the language school; she herself leaves for David by bus.
Kris and Lisanne stayed at the language school that morning until 10:40 pm ][virhe - am], but by the time Eileen returned, they had just left. Consequently, Eileen doesn't succeed in informing them of Aura's decision.
At 11:00 am Marjolein is on the bus to David when she drives past Plaza San Francisco; from the window she sees Kris and Lisanne getting into a taxi. She immediately calls Eileen to say that the women are in downtown Boquete. Rightly so, Marjolein assumes that they will go straight to Aura at the beginning of the afternoon, where Maria Elena Q. will tell them there is no work for them that week. Marjolein assumes that Kris and Lisanne will report back to the language school afterwards.
Moises E.C. (previously called Moises V.) from café Bistro underlines Marjolein's statement. He sees Kris and Lisanne sometime after twelve o'clock in the park near the traffic circle on their way to supermarket Romero. They were in a great hurry, one of them had a phone in her hand, he says.
Maria Elena Q. later states to the police: "The two girls, both about eighteen years old, didn't speak Spanish at all, they spoke to me in a language similar to French, and I told them that I did not need volunteers; this they understood". The latter appears to be a misinterpretation on Maria Elena Q.'s part. Because Kris had an entirely different impression "Very unfriendly and not at all warm or welcoming", Kris writes in her diary that evening. "We also didn't understand exactly what was going on".
After disappointment at Aura, Kris and Lisanne, as expected, return to the language school, to find it closed. The two wait for a while, and finally they shove a note under the door of Marjolein's office and go to lunch.
At 1:13 pm Kris turns on her phone for the first time that day, Lisanne's phone registers wi-fi contact from 1:27 to 1:38 pm at the restaurant where they are having lunch. From that period until roughly 2:00 pm she receives and sends several WhatsApp messages. After lunch, they visit the Boquete Artisan Village, where they talk to saleswoman Ana, about a walk they want to make, they just don't say which one. Later that afternoon they return to the language school to look for information on the computer about, among other things, the Pianista Trail.
At 4:42 pm Lisanne's Samsung is in contact with the wi-fi of the language school, at 4:44 pm, wi-fi contact with Kris' iPhone is registered. At 5:20 pm Lisanne takes another look on Tripadvisor. They use the wi-fi until 5:26 pm, when they walk to Myriam's house.
At 6:30 pm, Marjolein, who just returned from David, finds the note from Kris and Lisanne under the door. She reads that around 1:00 pm nobody was at the language school. Marjolein doesn't understand any of this, because Eileen was supposed to be there until 5:00 pm. Eventually she gets hold of Kris and Lisanne around 7 pm and tells them that Guardaría Aura has no placement for them that week. The two are disappointed, but understand that Marjolein can't do anything about it. It's agreed that Eileen will call the coordinator of Casa Esperanza first thing in the morning to see if they can work over there. In their diaries we read that, thanks to the unpleasant reception, neither of them has much desire to work at Aura.
After dinner, Kris reads a book in their bedroom, while Lisanne sits next to Myriam on the couch and watches television. Lisanne has a cold and complains about it. Myriam asks what they are going to do that week now that the volunteer work is canceled. Lisanne answers that they have no fixed plans yet.
By 8 pm Kris and Lisanne go to Sigrid V. for a massage. They tell her what happened at Aura and that they might start working at Casa Esperanza, but that it's still uncertain when they start there. It's past nine in the evening when they return home.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
That morning at 07:00 am Marjolein left for Costa Rica. Kris and Lisanne woke up early. Lisanne's phone shows app traffic until 07:52 am, then they rush to the language school.
At 08:00 am Eileen calls Casa Esperanza. But Kris and Lisanne can't work there that week, they are told there are already enough volunteers. So they decide to do 'fun things'. Together with Eileen, they agree on going on an excursion the next day: the coffee tour. Eileen calls guide Feliciano; who is in David for a hospital visit at the time. He confirms the appointment and promises to pick them up from the language school at 08:00 am the next morning.
Kris and Lisanne use their phones to use the Internet for a bit more and decide they want to do at least something that day. Without telling Eileen where they are going, they walk back to Myriam's house, pack Lisanne's backpack and swap their shoes. Myriam's daughter watches them leave, she describes the two as lightly dressed, carrying only one backpack.
Kris and Lisanne take a cab to town and have breakfast at restaurant Nelvis, where the cook, Nelvis, sees the women sitting on his terrace. Edwin S. serves them their food. He remembers the brief conversation that he had with the two, in which Kris and Lisanne told him that they wanted to walk to 'the mountain': "I am almost sure that I have seen them sitting here on the terrace. I also told the police that. Although in my opinion many European women look a like. But Kris in particular was very recognizable with her reddish hair. And I can explain that they were alone", said Edwin S.
Until 10:16 am, Kris and Lisanne were on the Internet via the wi-fi of Nelvis. Lisanne is briefly on Facebook and looks at the Dutch news app (NOS). Then she opens Google Maps and downloads a map for offline use. The NFI report doesn't reveal what exactly she is downloading, but we consider it very probable that it was the map of Sendero el Pianista.
At 10:26 am the last wi-fi contact at Nelvis is registered, shortly after, Kris and Lisanne settle their bill and leave. They grab a cab to Il Pianista restaurant to start their trip a little after eleven. Around 1 pm they reach the top of the Pianista, where they take a series of pictures with both Lisanne's camera as well as their cell phones. At 1:14 pm Lisanne shuts down Google Maps, and the two walk into the jungle.
Pahoitteluni jo etukäteen mahdollisista kirjoitusvirheistä ja virhelyönneistä. Mä olen viimeksi kirjoitellut näin pitkiä tekstejä "puhtaaksi" joskus reilut 10 vuotta sitten - silloin 90-luvulla. Tekstin keskellä löytyy muutama oma korjaukseni tai huomautukseni hakasulkeissa
. Pitänee vielä jossain välissä tehdä suomenkielinen tiivistelmä.
Tästä selviää hyvin pitkälle mitä tytöt tekivät Boquetessa - ja myös mitä he eivät ole tehneet!
Useastihan on epäilty, että Kris ja Lisanne olisivat olleet vaeltamassa jo päivää aiemmin tai vasta päivää myöhemmin. Missä hiivatin välissä he olisivat ehtineet käydä uimassa Caldera Hot Springsilla? Yksinkertaisesti pelkkien faktojen avulla voidaan sulkea pois monia epäilyksiä, katkoa huhuilta siipiä ja estää kaikenmaailman rönsyilyjä.