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I just thought this was a cool pic. It had just stormed and the storm clouds were breaking up.

This is a picture of the boat our food comes on. It's hard to tell how big it is, but those are train cars on it. I wanted to get a pic of it coming into the harbor but I was on breakfast duty so I couldn't, maybe next time though.

This is a picture of the Cox Development, the place we went for our project yesterday. This is the main building with 24 rooms in it.

So Tuesday night some people went turtling. I think they only caught like 4 turtles, but one group saw 2 HUGE sharks. One was a 7ish foot nurse shark and the other was a 7 or 8 foot reef shark. Needless to say there was some panicking and one of the girls ended up riding piggy back on one of the guys (in the water of course) until she was sure the shark was gone.

Yesterday we went to different developments around the island to see if they are going to be sustainable businesses both economically and ecologically. The basic premise of the project was we were "investors" and had to decide if we wanted to invest in the business or not. I ended up going to the Cox development which is right by our center. Long story short, the owner had no idea what we meant by being ecologically friendly and could not understand why we were disgusted by the fact that they don't filter the rain water that they use for real water in the hotel. Needless to say, we opted to not invest.

Last night we were supposed to have the first volleyball tournament of the semester. Of course, after 1 game a huge thunderstorm came through and made us have to postpone the games until further notice. Don't worry though, my team is going to go all the way. Three out of the 4 of us played volleyball in highschool and one of the girls on my team still plays in college. The only one of us that hasn't played before is Juston (the only guy on our team), but he tries very hard so it's ok.

When the volleyball tournament got called off, we played a mini fooseball tournament and then had a board game night. I had an off night in fooseball so I wasn't happy, but I made up for it in Balderdash (which I had never played before).

Tomorrow if the weather is nice, we are going to take a day trip to Fish Key. We can bring our snorkel gear and snorkel if we want or we can just lay on the beach. We have to go there by boat so we'll be there all day, I'm quite excited. If the weather is bad, things could get ugly.

So to answer Julie's questions, most of the people here are from the East Coast (New York, Maine, NC, Maryland, Boston), there is one other girl from IL, she goes to U of I, there is a girl from Minnesota, one from Indiana, and one from Cleveland. There is one guy from Colorado and a guy and a girl from CA (Evelyn is from San Fransisco and Gabe is from San Diego). If you want to see pictures of everyone, go to www.fieldstudies.org and look at "News from the Field" and you can see pictures of the students and what school they go to as well as where they are from.

At night, if we don't have homework, we watch movies, play board games (some favorites are catchphrase and Balderdash), play card games, go to the stores to get candy, or go out to the bars either to watch tv or just chill. Some of us (including myself) brought books to read so if I do get a chance to read, it's at night before bed. During down time in the day, we sometimes play volleyball or frisbee or chill in the pool. I hope that answers your questions Julie.

Well that's about it for now, take care!

-Michelle