I am in the midst of my first field exercise- we spent two days gathering water quality data for my socio-econ class, and now each student is to write a scientific paper on one aspect of the data. It is not the most difficult thing I've ever done, but when it is 80+ degrees and sunny outside I'm not too keen on sitting inside all day to analyze data and type. Once this one is done, I'll be in good shape for the other two of the semester (one for each of the three courses).
Besides working hard on collecting data and writing it up, I've been up to some interesting things lately. Around the Center, we've had a couple of game nights that have been really fun. I'm definitely making new friends and even as the large group, every gets along very well. This past Sunday, the free time outing was to a Croc farm about an hour and a half away (plus some getting-lost time). It was baking hot, but the animals were super-interesting. The crocs were in chain-link pens but there were kangaroos, wallabys, emus and guinea hens wandering around. There were also dingoes and cassowaries in pens! All in all I got a lot of cool pictures, held a 2 foot croc (mouth taped shut), touched a baby croc's teeth, petted and was slobbered on by a wallaby-don't worry Mom, I washed my hands, and got scared to death by a couple of crocs.
Tonight, I'm going spotlighting for the second time. Hopefully when I go back to the cabin, there won't be snakes on the stairs. Again. 5 snake visits in 4 days- we're going to keep a tally.
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