Day 1

Woke up at 5:30 on the dot. Maybe mother and father know this - but I didn't finish packing until 2. I wasn't really sure everything would fit into my bags, but they did...barely. I looked like an idiot trying to carry all my stuff around. My bags kept falling off my back and I practically fell down from the weight of everything. After the uneventful flight, I met everyone at the Tourist Information Center and waited another hour for one last straggler. Then we were off to the field station. The drive didn't start out too scenic but we finally made it to the top of the mountain in El Yunque!

Puerto Rico is so humid! We are surrounded by the rainforest. It's very cool. Right now all I'm hearing are the froggies chirpin. Frogs don't chirp - i know. Rippitting. After we arrived, we found out who our roommates would be for the next 5 weeks and set up camp. We had a nice dinner outside. Apparently, its common for people to abandon their pets once they decide they don't want them anymore. So at dinner a stray dog was inching towards the group trying to get his share of our dinner. He did not succeed. After dinner, we unpacked, showered, and now we are all doing our first assignment. It's our first night here and we already have 70 pages of reading.

 The Kitchen/Living Area - a couch on the right and one behind me

 Yvonne is already asleep. Hilary, if you're reading this, you know her!

I'm on the lower bunk bed