I am really awful at remembering to update this thing. However, it's a good thing I post stuff on Facebook once in awhile so I can look back at past statuses as reminders. We've finished up our terrestrial survey and also preformed a water survey. Some really neat sea creatures were seen, some students even saw some sharks. Also- New Years was a couple weeks ago. We ended up hanging out at our apartment complex, swimming, setting off fire works and drinking. I am excited to see what might be coming up for the Chinese New Year- supposedly it is a big deal around here.
Anyhow, about a block from the apartment complex is the Saipan Zoo. I finally made it out there yesterday for the first time where I was surprised to find out the owner has a pet corgi named Bear. He was so friendly and adorable. It was nice to be able to be around a dog (especially a corgi). The zoo has loads of different types of chickens, some goats, a couple types of monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, some fruit bats and several large cats. One of the girls here is going to working with fruit bats and makes her way over to the zoo several times a week to feed the little guys. It was pretty surprising to be able to reach through cages to feed animals, and even pet a tiger.
The internet has been really awful recently so I've not been able to upload pictures. Hopefully soon I will be able to post collectively pictures from the zoo, some of the surveys as well as our most recent trip to Tinian! Goal of the week: at least one more post (w/ pics), read a book (non-school related) and email the professors at UH (more about this soon)!
