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2/22/10
Today, though we waited at the University an hour, we had a rain-day from school. We drank hot chocolate with some classmates at museum of chocolate, took a very wet maquina ride home, and then curled up with Lenin’s Imperialism to read.
2/23/10
I have been here exactly one month. Very crazy to think about. Nothing too special occurred this morning. Had to wait for three buses to go by before we finally caught one. The grocery hasn’t been stocking milk so breakfast tomorrow may be a bit difficult.
After Spanish (this is our last week of Spanish class by the way) I bussed over to Biology where today I learned about estuaries and mangroves. My professor wasn’t as charismatic as the one from my first class. But when we finished early he took me on a tour (meaning, showed me around the closet sized room) of the lab were two biologists were doing work. He studies nematods (ugh) to see if they can indicate the nutrients of the sediment of their ecosystem. It was pretty interesting to see their lab supplies. They have a sink, a microscope and a computer (w/out internet). I asked how they got some of the literature that is published online these days (when I think about it, that is how I do MOST of my biological research). Their solution: they write to the authors and ask if they can send them a copy of the work, or colleagues in other countries send them recommended readings. It is a bit hard for me to imagine doing academic biological research with out the Internet.
And now I’m back to reading for Third World Underdevelopment and Politics.