Caciques: Kearney and Ben
Today was (for all our purposes) a Sunday, providing some much needed rest. K1 rejoined our community on campus, and everyone had a blast reuinting with one another and sharing various stories from Kayak and Academic rotations. In the early morning, we all enjoyed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, grits, bacon and orange juice! It was Continue reading
Caciques: Jake and Emma
We began the day as usual however certain members of the community forgot to wake up…boys dorm. After everyone was fully conscious we began our long morning exercise. Run track ran to Deal’s Point while swim track swam to Current Cut from Girls’ Dorm Beach. We then had a full 3 hour long research class and we worked on our methodology Continue reading
We started out with run track and swim track as long morning exercise. After breakfast, everyone packed up to go to Princess Cays, the cruise ship port. We arrived at Princess Cays and explored the markets outside the gates, talking to some of our homestay families and learning about tourism around the area. After the markets, we were able to go Continue reading
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We started off the morning with an exciting ZOOMBA led by Nick. The zoomba was an hour long dance session that got everyone’s blood pumping. We had a morning of literature, math and history. After lunch we headed out for the afternoon to collect data for our Human Ecology projects. For these projects students are broken into groups and create naturalist guides for the birds Continue reading
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Today the Spring 2010 semester was given the opportunity to give back to the school for Legacy Day. We split into four groups and each group was assigned a different project. Two of the groups worked on landscaping and planting edible trees so that future semesters can enjoy these foods. The other groups Continue reading
Eliza shows off her filleting skills
Today we strayed from our usual “water parameter, goby feeding” routine and went diving into the offshore cage. We loaded nets, bags, and scuba gear into Red Rising. Sitting on the bow of the boat, we looked at the aquaculture cage 50 feet down in the water. Snappers, grouper, cobia, and even two bull sharks circled the cage. Then, we began our decent. As we approached Continue reading
Eliza and Sean
Every Tuesday our community gathers in the boathouse. During the past couple of meetings we have sent the hour discussing pressing issues and schedules for the week. Today, however, we decided to spice it up and shorten it. We started the meeting with an opportunity for people to voice their opinions and concerns, but kept this part as brief as possible. To get people moving, Continue reading
As I write this I can hear my brain sizzling because I just blew out my eardrum by freediving down 55 feet for morning exercise. Pretty intense huh? Half of my friends left me today to begin their 8-day kayak and Down Island trips. This is Continue reading
Greetings Parents! We started off this wonderful Saturday morning with extended run/swim tracks. After breakfast, we had our Saturday morning classes. For today’s classes, we had “Bizarro” Research day. In other words, we attended a research class DIFFERENT from the one that we are Continue reading
Today during flats we spent most of our time together working in the wet lab. We began our session in the fourth vault, and discussed our methodology paper and poster for Parents’ Weekend. While working in the wet lab we outlined the various systems that our lab