Just had an oh hamburgers moment so I’ll get to the blogging dealio. Pretty boring life the last couple of days for this kid. I’ll pick up Wednesday with our wonderful field day in Lindero Sur with Enrique identifying and tagging. We got great numbers for a bunch of species and just under one hundred trees total. Saw my second snake after Enrique pointed it out. He didn’t know the name of it only that it wasn’t poisonous and ate birds, not people. A big’un at well over a meter.
We finished work (at the back of the property) around 11:45 a.m. and I was determined to make it back for lunch, which ends at one. Not only did I make it back, but I had time to shower beforehand. It was well worth it because they had the best broccoli since I’ve been in Costa Rica and away from Southy. Coffee breaked a whole bunch Wednesday and listened to the Yanks game later on. Around 8:00 p.m., a few of us trekked out to the bar in the rain for Diane’s going-away to Nicaragua. After a few drinks we regrouped at the lounge to watch a pretty ludicrous episode of CSI on the tube.
Slept in, again, Thursday. I’ve probably made it to breakfast on only 50% of my non field days in the last couple of weeks. Watched some South Park before going to lunch and seeing Taylor, Fei and Gilbert off to San Jose for the weekend. Made a pledge to log some serious sleep in their absence and it’s been going pretty well so far, easily 11 hours last night.
Today and Friday I spent the majority of my time studying for the MCAT. Got through all of the biology and onto the organic chemistry tomorrow morning. It all feels really comfortable because every concept is on its second or third repetition and most of it was from A & P II, one of my favorite classes.
Tomorrow Virginia’s birthday and I believe there’s going to be cake and an excursion to the bar. Monday is the beginning of the end of field days for my project and later on “Fiesta Espectacularrrrr para Los Cumpleaños de Taylor.” Did the shopping for the party this afternoon, forgoing a very very muddy game of ultimate. Patacones and quesadillas...yum. The coming week is three long days of field with three long days of lab, so don’t expect blogging wonders, but I will post pictures from the party.
In far future news, I’ll probably try to return to the states early in the first week of August. And then once the MCAT is done (8/15) it’s all about canoeing, hiking, birthday and Madden 2009 until that school thing gets going again. For pictures today, a couple winners from field days past. Thanks for reading!
BP
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