Sorry for the lack of updates! I’ve been insanely busy since I wrote last! After orientation week, students left for travel weekend to explore Belize on their own. I also traveled with some staff and had some great adventures in Southern Belize, which I had never been to before!
Right after travel weekend I jumped back into work and have been working ever since! Since travel weekend we have had one full week of class (Sustainable Community Development 1), and are now halfway into the second week (Stream Ecology). I am the TA this week, and am busy making sure everything is in order so that our days go smoothly. Today we had an all day fieldtrip/ lab (8am to 5pm) to do stream sampling at three different streams to test for water quality, and the quality of the stream ecosystem as a whole. We also learned about some geological features that affect the streams and went to an awesome cave that has a river flowing through it! The area around the cave is one of my favorite places because the forest is so lush and beautiful.
Tomorrow will be class and lab here at the Nab, Thursday will be another full day fieldtrip, and Friday will bring a test, class, and final presentations on stream quality comparisons for the students. For me, the rest of the week will be busy with time spent in class, lab, grading tests, preparing for the next fieldtrip, and planning for Celebration night, which we have every Friday night when student are done with a class!
I'm am loving life here, although I have been a little bit stressed with the beginning of classes and the amount of work to do. Right now I'm still working on creating balance between work/time with the CCSP community and time to myself, but am really hopeful that things will get better as I am more intentional about taking time for myself. I've already been so blessed to be working with great staff, and been blessed with energy and confidence in doing so many new things! Our CCSP community is slowly developing, and it is great to meet new professors, learn from them, and get to know them!
Also, there is at least one new post up on CCSP’s blog since I wrote last. Take care!
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