Today,
TJ and I decided to put mosquito nets over the office. The top of the office is
pretty open so A LOT of mosquitoes and bugs get into the room and bite you like
crazy. There was a bunch of old, ripped mosquito nets that can’t be used for
beds anymore, so we repaired them in order to use them for the office. However,
one volunteer told us that it
was going to be too hard and that we couldn’t do it. It is people like that who
are the reason things don’t get done in this world. Too many people say the
word “can’t,” when they should be using the word “can.” We both took his words
as a direct challenge and were determined to make it work. Within an hour we had
finished half of the office.
The
rest of the day I spent with Alice learning Spanish and talking about plans for
the hatchery. She gave me some new phrases to use with the parlameros as well
as some new verb conjugations to practice. She also gave me some documents relating
to recent hatchery plans in another part of Guatemala, which is super helpful!
The past
couple nights have been really good for turtle sightings due to the lunar
cycle. Turtle nesting is strongly correlated to the position of the moon, but
we don’t fully understand the extent of it yet. The moon set at about midnight,
which according to the locals made it a good night for turtles. We got some
more donations and more found nests, so we did well! Also on the patrols, one
of the volunteers found a dead baby dolphin that was killed by a harpoon. She
didn’t get any pictures because she didn’t have her camera on her and when we
went back it was gone. Poor dolphin :(.
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