We toured a hydroelectric plant as well as a wind farm. You may notice in our wind farm photo that our group has grown. A group of 6 students in the Living Roots program, have come to the Institute, and while we take separate classes, they travel and take field trips with us. One of the girls is from UW-Madison! GO BADGERS! <3
In the week before we left, Ahdi and I tried starting on our final project for our ecology class. We were interested in studying the bee pollination of coffee plants, but the week we went to monitor pollination, it rained every day. The dry season is such a scam. We had to change our project topic, because we were running out of time, so we studied stream quality of a nearby stream. More on that later.
On one of our failed study days, I found a cane toad. Biggest toad I've ever seen, and far bigger than any toad I'd ever like to see again.
On another field trip, we went to a women's co-op that makes delicious jam, and we stopped by the house of another woman that makes paper. We got to make paper out of a mixture of scrap paper and orange leaves. It smelled wonderful, and I was sad that we couldn't wait for it to dry and bring them home.
Following this weekend, we had to get ready to leave for 4 nights of camping and our trip to Nicaragua!
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