Day 3!

Hi!!

As you can see above (look at the "hello" section immediately above this), I've started a facebook album that has more photos! So, click that link (or here) to view the album! You don't need a facebook profile to see it; it's the "public" album link. Yay!

Anyway! Last night we made our food run: I spent $100 and pretty much got most of my food for the entire trip...soup, frozen dinners, canned veggies, frozen fruit, granola bars, cereal, bread, etc. Hawaiian Bread is only $2 here! Is that cheaper than home? So, as far as food goes, then, all I'm gonna need to keep up on is cheese, yogurt, milk, OJ, and fresh fruit from the farmer's market down the way!

This is the cliff we stand on! We stand where the plateau is, not on the precipitous edge.

Today was great. Woke up around 6:45 am, showered (was done by 7:07 am...w00t!), ate Honey Nut Cheerios with 2% milk and a glass of Simply Orange Orange Juice. I then did some of the readings for tonight. At 8:15 am my team walked down to Laura's room (team leader from the Netherlands!) and we drove out to the cliff where we then studied whale movement 9 am-noon. The whales weren't too active today and they were pretty far from shore. On Tuesday we saw a lot of mom-calf action, and today the most action was (we think) a mom whale tail slapping at least 30 times after another couple of whales breached nearby. Hypothesis: the mom whale was threatened by the breaching whales and was tail slapping to warn the breaching whales away from the calf.

Note: breaching whales are the most magical sight ever. You think they're great on television...see one in person and it's life changing.

Anyway, so we did research and then stopped at the farmer's market! I spent $14 and got a passionfruit (never tried it...), a solo papaya, strawberries, apple-bananas, a kiwi, cherry tomatoes, and a red pepper! And then we went back to the condo for lunch and I had a salad with an apple-banana and cherry tomatoes, a cheese/bread sandwich, and a glass of the most delicious 2% milk ever. Then Laura came over and we learned how to plot our data on a map! Lots of math and logic and figuring our of before/during/after "boat time" with the whale action. The final result of our data each pod is the statistic of "X whale behavior/minute/animal", X being a number--the numbers we got today were 0.30 and 1.50. Super cool! I really like it.

Now I'm gonna heat up something to eat (I love microwaves...God's gift to man, except for the whole cancer causing aspect if you put your face too close to them, or something...is that right?) and then at 5:30 we're heading over to the lecture (which doesn't start until 7 pm, but we've got such a big group they told us to get there early so we can get seats) and then we've got class whenever that's done until 9(ish) pm! Then I'm gonna stay up and read ahead so that (eventually) I can type up my notes into my computer and a) incorporate them into my blog and b) use them as a study tool/study guide.

Phew! Time to eat. Love! And I miss everybody! I love what I'm doing, but I keep thinking about how great it would be if everybody were here to share it with me :)

Can't wait to see you when I get back!!