Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Crawl Count Training

Tuesday, July 17th

Scott, turtle expert of Guatemala, took Glenda and I out in the morning for our crawl counts and gave us a proper training. The whole process made so much more sense after he explained everything. In addition, he came to look at our hatchery and told us that the sand had to be leveled out more in order to make sure that the temperature is uniform for all of the nests. After eating a quick breakfast, Emma and Sebastian (two volunteers from Europe) helped me level out the sand. All of the German girls decided they wanted to paint trees instead of help us in the hatchery. I wish they would have helped us, but we can't make them do anything they don't want to do.

One of the other volunteers informed us at lunch that three of the German girls were leaving this evening. Even though we are in desperate need of volunteers, we do not need volunteers who refuse to do work and cause problems for the rest of the parque. Glenda even was getting upset with them. They left their dirty dishes all over the kitchen and dining table as well as made a mess all throughout the parque. In retaliation, she posted signs in broken English everywhere. I found it hilarious!



Glenda's signs


We ended up finishing all the leveling in one day! It was nice to see the hatchery look all nice and pretty. One of the German girls actually came and helped us in the end, which was nice. I respect her a lot more now. Later on in the evening, I found out that the other four girls are probably leaving on Thursday.

 The big hatchery all leveled!

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