Here is what I've been up to since I last posted:
- Went on an excursion with all the BU kids to that lake I posted about last time and to Otovalo, a giant hat market where I bought my hat.
- Finished the first course: Tropical Montane Biology
- We briefly visited a mountain called Papallacta (potato field) to see how the flora and minimal fauna changes with elevation.
- This concluded with downtime in thermal hot springs.
- Went to Cotopaxi (giant snow capped mountain/volcano) to see paramo (alpine grassland).
- Stayed at La Hesperia, a dairy farm/biological reserve for a weekend to learn about cloud forest flora and fauna.
- Finished with intensive Spanish class.
- Only class is biology from 9 to 12 besides field trips.
- Visited Mindo for a weekend on my own with a few friends.
- It is a town in a cloud forest that runs on eco-tourism.
- Pictures here
- Turned 21.
- Tried to take a nap today. Success was variable.
- Learn to cook food from my host mother after writing this post.
- Live with indigenous people in another cloud forest this weekend.
- Frolic at the beach for 10 days with the class for our second block, Tropical Coast Beach Fun Time.
- Take a short 2-credit dry cleaning class at the Galapagos for 8 days somewhere between March 1st-15th.
- Go to the rainforest for a month to search for some elusive trees.
- Return home to no internship and consequently no future. Tentative.
- Post about what I've been eating with a lot of pictures.
- Complain that I haven't seen any lizards.
- More videos.
The call of the Scinax elaeochrous sounds suspiciously like that of a dog . . . The cloud forests looked awesome.
ReplyDeleteyour posts are getting very concise haha sounds fun tho! Your pictures are freaking awesome btw :D love nature close ups! and why do you want to cook so fast... D: foodie...
ReplyDeleteWoops, I meant that I was going to cook in less than 20 minutes from when I was writing this blog post.
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