night wanderings

So, things are in full swing. They're pretty good! The last 2 nights we've done night walks to look at the night life. Pretty crazy. We had 3 different locations (old growth, new growth, open field), and three different times (7:30-9:30pm, 11-1am, 3-5am). We split the cabins up to do the different times, so 1/3 of us did a shift and split up within the areas. The first night (tues night) was pretty cool! I was in the old growth group with the early shift, so I definitely lucked out w/ the full night sleep. We wandered around the old growth rainforest with a professor, and we saw some great things. A dragon lizard, a ton of spiders/webs, crickets, bandicoot, etc. Bandicoots are pretty common around here! (small marsupials) Last night I had the 3-5am open field shift, and that was pretty crazy. It was basically all empty. We did see a couple bats, though, and that was cool. It wasn't too bad being up then, b/c I got to bed really early & we got to sleep in a bit after. So, I'm actually pretty awake right now. yay. We went through all the gathered info this morning, & we've had free time since. It's been nice. The class scheduled for this afternoon was moved to after dinner, so it's great having this time. We have some pool, ping pong, etc. fun times. Yesterday during some free time some of us went to a nearby lake for a great swim. It felt so nice- jump in water, lie on the grass... It's actually been pretty consistently sunny the past week! so nice. I'm sure that I'll start working on the paper that's due Saturday morning for the socio-econ course pretty soon. It shouldn't be too bad. So, yeah- things are good! I do like being with everyone on a site like this with no need for cell phones or email. It's going to be funny getting back to the USA. Here we all eat together, hang out in the same general area, etc. good stuff. Ok, I should probably start the paper... but perhaps just procrastinate a bit more.