Sunday, April 10, 2011

Week 13 of Semester 2--More Sea Turtles Work

Well, here we are at the end of the semester again... it has been quite a long one, yet it feels like a year has just simply flown by as well...

Thursday night was my first sea turtle night patrol--I was on the beach from 8:00pm-12:00am.  There have been some... issues... on the beaches near Timothy Beach (the other main turtle nesting beach), so they put all of us volunteers on Cayon-to-Keys Beach.  There were... 10 of us, I think.  We broke up into 2 teams and started at the midpoint of the beach.  One team went north, the other team went south... and then we set up camp for half an hour to 40 minutes.  Then we met back at the middle point, and set up camp for half an hour to 40 minutes.  Then the teams swapped ends of the beach.  In the 4 hours I was on patrol, we made one full pass of the beach, but didn't see anything.  It was actually pretty disappointing, but we'll have to see what happens next week.

We had our last volleyball game on Friday, and boy are the beaches getting hotter and hotter as we get closer to summertime.  We lost our final game, which made our overall score 2-wins and who knows how many losses.  It was fun though... and it sounds like Heather is planning on keeping the team together for next semester (she's talking about team t-shirts).  I'm definitely glad I stuck with it.  :)

I think I've got a cold coming on (and yes, I know how ironic it sounds to get a "cold" while living on a tropical island--but I'm in the second round of people catching it).  I even backed out of seeing Sucker Punch with my friends so that I could stay home with some tea and get some more sleep in.

Well, back to studying--parasitology lab final on Tuesday!

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