Saturday, January 28, 2012

January 24th, 2012

The 24th was our last full day at Monteverde. Most people spent the day finishing up research projects and writing up our findings. The group traveling down to Santa Elana to study coffee disease and the group studying elfin forest spent the morning collecting data while the group studying invertebrates in leaf litter and the group who collected coffee consumer surveys spent the morning analyzing their data and writing their reports. In the evening we celebrated our last day by going out to watch the sunset. We hiked out to the continental divide and watched the sun fall behind the clouds over the Pacific Ocean. It was a taste of things to come as we returned back to the reserve to pack for our long drive to the dry forest the next day.

A very special event also took place on the 24th. Our classmate, John Dempsher turned 22! We started the day with a Happy Birthday chorus and met at 3 to enjoy a piña colada cake covered in so many candles it looked like a fire hazard.

Happy Birthday John!

Off to the dry forest! Then back home before we know it.

İPura Vida!

Anna H.