Carara National Park

Hello everyone! yesterday was our first day of data collection, we drove to carara national park and are staying in a near by hotel, which was SUPPOSE to have wireless internet..but suprise suprise...does not. Instead they have one computer that looks to be about 10 years old, and is very very slow..so my next few posts are going to have to be short. Data collection requires us to get up at 5.00AM every morning and go into the rainforest to measure the sound that is emitted from the highway )thats what I did yesterday) The other gruop listens and looks for birds, and writes down how many, and what species they are..our professor does most of the identifying of species, then the last person has to sit near the road and count how many cars go by for a whole hour..that was my job today..NOT the most exciting..but oh wel! We do this twice a day, and after each collection of data we have to put the information collected into excel. Then when we get back, we have to write a directed research paper over it, i want to get a head start and begin today though. It especially hard being away from home for this last week becasue I know my ENTIRE family is all in from out of town. I wish so bad I could be there with all of you..but just know I am thinking of you always. Dont have too much fun without me, miss you all and love you so much!
Alyson