Peacing out again for a while...

Hola amigos y amigas! ¿Qué hay de nuevo con ustedes? Um...so I thought I would post real quick before we head off for 2.5 weeks on our next field trip. Tomorrow morning, we're backpacking up the mountain, through cloud forest, over the continental divide, and then down the Atlantic-side slope to a place called Peñas Blancas (en "el bosque eterno de los niños" reserve), which is the wettest rainforest in Costa Rica (real hardcore jungle). Then, we make our way towards the coast to south of Tortuguero where we're going to search for nesting sea turtles. Then we go down to Panama (we have to leave Costa Rica to renew our tourist visas, which is a great excuse) to Bocas del Toro to snorkel and chill on beaches. Um...yeah it's an okay life, I guess... Pahahaha! Let's see...today we finished some pretty brutal midterm exams (it's ridiculously hard to concentrate on lecture notes in a place like this)...then I had to talk for 30 mins in spanish about U.S. influence on Latin American cultures--gaaah! Um...oh and then this afternoon a crapload of army ants attacked the station, destroying all the wasp nests, which really pissed them off and they were flying around everywhere, obviously pretty distraught that their larvae were being devoured by hordes of ants whose life strategy is basically to go around with a ginormous army eating everything that moves. So freaking cool! Anyway--I'm probably going to have no internet access until early April (all the supplies for the first place gets there on horses...if they avoid the snakes...muahahaha...we actually still haven't seen a poisonous snake...although they tell us this will be the place...sweet!). I hope all is well and happy spring soon!

P.S. FELIZ CUMPLEANOS, TOUSSAINT!!!