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Hey all!

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Things have been CRAZY around here. We've been projected to death! We've had a project about projecting ecotourism developments, a project on coming up with research methods, a project about coastal zoning....and that was all THIS week. And then there was our conch paper last week. Today was the presentation for our zoning project, our last project until finals, which start on Monday. So needless to say, it's been a really stressful two weeks. Oh, and we had our final coral ID exam on Thursday. My brain's about fried. But we have managed to slip in a little fun here and there.

Wednesday, me and some of the other students led a field trip for a 5th grade class. We took them out to an area with a lot of mangroves and showed them all the cool things about them. It was a really fun time, the kids really enjoyed looking for all the critters that live in the mangroves, like crabs and sea cucumbers and sea stars. That afternoon, we had a really nice dive to a place called the Arch. Named because theres an area of corals that form a huge arch you can swim under. Not too much exciting stuff, a couple of spotted eagle rays and a green moray, but other than that, just a nice peaceful dive.

This weekend should be pretty relaxing. Tonight we're having an invitational dinner for the teachers and some other community members from the churches and stores. We've been setting up and cleaning a good chunk of the afternoon. It should be nice, we send out almsot 90 invitations, but we're exepcting about half that to show. It will definatly be nice to relax a little and mingle with the community in a different setting after this busy, stressful week.

Tomorrow is community outreach and HOPEFULLY another dive, if the weather cooperates. It's been really windy and rough lately. We couldn't go out last Saturday because of the weather either.

Sunday I'm sure will be spend studying. Exams start Monday and go through Wednesday, but Wednesday night we're having a cook-out with an optional camp-out that night. I'm REALLY looking forward to that! I'm not sure where we're going yet, but I know it will be awesome! Then Thursday we start our directed research! I'm sure I'll have a lot more interesting stuff to share then! That's about all that's new around here! I'll post again when I can!