Hi guys! My name is Stephanie and I am another one of the lucky students that got to come on this amazing learning experience with the Belize field school. Let me just start off with WOW!!!!! We are only half way into this journey and have already experienced so much! We have learned about cultural differences between our community back home and the community here, about the ancient and modern mayan cultures, different types of forests, rivers, coastal zones, reef habitats and all the creatures that live within these places. It has truly been a sensory overload, not that any of us are complaining. Last night and today several of our students and coordinators came down with some sort of bug, myself included. But, for the most part everyone is feeling better. While some of us were resting up, the rest of the class went on an intertidal walk and were able to collect different sea specimans. They took the different organisms to our make-shift lab and were able to examine them more closely with microscopes. One table in our dining area has also been dedicated to our learning purposes. We have all sorts of books and reference materials to help us identify what we are seeing in the field. Also on the agenda today is a snorkel to the mangroves. Hopefully tomorrow everyone will be in better health and be able to go back out into the field. We miss you all back at home and look forward to talking everyone’s ears off when we arrive home ;)
My name is Cassie. Everyone here has come to know Stephanie and I as "the twins". One goal for me on this trip was to see a manatee. They usually hang out at the mangroves, but we did not see any the other day when we came down the river. Today we saw 3 from the boat! After we were all satisfied with seeing white blobs swim away very fast, we jumped in for a snorkel and there was one right under us! 4 of us followed him for a while and he was HUGE!!! This trip is amazing!! Hello Mom, Dad, Puffin and Crystal!!!!!
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