Hola amigos! Hope all is well with everyone--I can´t write much because I´m ducking out of lunch really quick...but I thought I would say hello and assure you that I have not yet been bitten by a snake. In fact, the only snake that any of the 31 of us has seen was about 12 cm by 1cm and flattened on the streeet. WTF! I wanted to at least have a distant encounter with one. But other than that, Costa Rican wildlife is as good as everyone says it is... Once we got to Corcovado National Park, my first "homework assignment" was to spend a day catching Norops spp. lizards (my group caught 48) and then present our results about what proportion of males/females/juveniles had had to replace their tails. So yeah, tromping around the dense rainforest and camping on a Pacific black-sand beach was a pretty good first week of "classes." I´ll write a bunch more about everything we´ve done when we get to Monteverde in a few days. The most recent wildlife encounter: got attacked by spider monkeys hurling big hard fruits from the canopy 40m up. They litereally drove me out of the jungle...gaaah!
Hasta luego!
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Well, we have 8 inches of snow falling today and we are so delighted to hear from you and enjoy your enthusiastic reports. I am so sad to have missed your calls yesterday on my birthday, but some of us have to work.
I love you and did you get my postcard?
Dad watched the MCS Eastern Final Saturday on TV at the Records(they'll be in the state final this week!) and he saw Mr. B leading cheers--Deb and Ed said he looked good...
I am older, so is Dad...no snakes here either. Be well and safe.
L
DOM
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