After finishing our coursework and taking our last final on
April 17th, we have spent the last two weeks immersed in our
directed research projects. My group is exploring how environmental factors
influence butterfly biodiversity. This entailed ten eight-hour days of running
around catching butterflies, identifying them, and releasing them. It was a
blast – although very tiring. As with any group it took us a couple of days to
learn how to work well together but by the end we were working as a cohesive team.
We are now in the process of analyzing our data and writing our final papers.
Our research group!
Despite all this work we are still finding time to enjoy
life here in Panama and do new things. Here are a few of my favorites from the
past couple weeks:
We made over 70 that they will sell in town.
Group beach day after our last final
Tara and I made bagels for everyone!
With only 8 days left before the semester end, it is
starting to hit us all how fast this semester has gone by and how much we will
miss this little community we have created. While I am excited to go home and
see my family, it is sad knowing that several of the students here I may never
see again even though we will always share experiences that no one else can
really ever understand.
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