Just a quick note

Hey Everyone!

So I haven't blogged cause I haven't had time to sit down and write a book about it, but then I realized I hadn't said anything in a few weeks, so I would just do a quick update.

Classes here are really busy, we are cramming an entire quarter into 6 weeks and it is super fun...The classes I am taking are: Natural Resource Economics, Society and Environment, Field Research Methods, Spanish and Culture, and Field Research. We have finished our Field Research class which was a two week intensive course. That's when I spent my whole life living, thinking, and breathing frogs. Now we are back in the Capital city of Malabo and attending the UNGE university for the other classes. Our teachers are from EG but educated abroad. Each weekend we take a field trip to another part of the country and have our field methods classes there.

This upcoming weekend is super exciting...we are going to mainland EG! The city is called Bata and the mainland is called Rio Muni. We are being flown over by Hess, an oil company on the island, and have to do a presentation to them regarding our reports. We will be staying on their compound, but I think get Saturday free to explore the city and surrounding forest. I really hope this works out cause there are actually forest elephants near by and I want to see one :D It will also be very interesting to see the differences in the forests between an isolated island and a portion of the large continental forests.

We are currently winding down the quarter and spending time working on our term papers. On March 21st I leave EG and head to the east...to Tanzania! I'm excited, but really not ready to leave EG yet. This country is really just at the start of amazing development/progress and being here it really seems like one of those places where one person can actually make a difference. You get inspired everyday by something that needs to be fixed that you can actually help with...it gets overwhelming, but its amazing.

Anyways, we have Spanish class in a few minutes and I have 4 reports due by midnight tonight. I love you all and hope you are doing well. Thank you for the comments and happy March!