Somewhat settling in now..
So, last time I posted something here, I was in the country for just about 24 hours. Right now it’s Wednesday morning , 10 minutes past 9 and I just had my coffee.
Anyway, what have I been up to the last couple of days, you wonder.. Last saturday I had a free day. With the jet-lag still keeping me from sleeping a whole lot in the morning, it was kinda hard to sleep in, so I spent lazing around the house in the morning. In the afternoon, me, Tim and James, my housemates, went over to Homestead to get some groceries. As the evening started, people started to drop in for a small welcome party that was organized for people from the office to get to know me. A sort of welcome party for me. With this party there was also a surprise birthdaycake for me and a colleague of mine, she had her birthday earlier that week and my birthday’s on the 23th of April (hinthint!!). It was a nice party and a good way to meet the others.
The following morning I was forced to get up early (6:30AM), since I was signed up to do volunteer work at the Biscayne National Park, south of Miami. This consisted of picking up trash that was washed up on shore on an island called Elliot Key out of the bay of Florida. A little reminder to all who read this, throw your trash in the trashcan and not into the ocean or street! I don’t want to be picking up your trash here in Florida. I saw bottles all the way from Germany!
After the volunteering, I decided to head out into the park some and check out Royal Palm. A place for tourists where they can check out some of the wildlife in the park. Mainly alligators and lots of birds. People from all over the world go there. I heard chinese, germans, dutchies, english and (of course) americans.
The monday and tuesday, that’d be yesterday and the day before yesterday we went out into the mangrove areas and did some sediment accretion research. Checking if the mangroves deposited more material on the muddy surface. We went there by boat, as you can’t get there by car. Oh man, that boat was FAST! We were hauling ass when we got to the bigger open water areas!
This morning we’re heading out to Homestead Airport, cause we’re going to a location that’s too far away to get to by boat. So we’re going there by… helicopter! You heard that right! In about 2 hours I’ll be up into the air and checking out the mangroves from a bird’s eye view, making sure I got my camera with me. That’s something I’m looking forward to, since I never been in a helicopter before.
I’ll make sure to get some pictures uploaded the next time I make a post, I bet that reading through a lot of text can be quite boring for you, the readers. So expect a serie of pictures soon!
As a last thing, I gotta say that I do love the fact that people are actually reading my little blog here and comment on my posts. I’ll make sure to keep you all updated about the on-goings here.
Right now though, I gotta get myself ready to get to the airport! See ya!
Themocracy
It looks like a James Bond movie with helicopters, fast boats and alligators, are you sure this is your work ?
Greatings
Dik Tineke Lonneke
Man, je maakt wat mee!! En je bent er nog maar net..We zijn benieuwd naar de volgende verhalen!!
Groetjes,
Pa en Ma.
Gefeliciteerd!!!!!