There are 2 lizards in our room
and I’m incredibly excited, hopefully they’ll eat all the mosquitoes in here. It’s hilarious how many lizards there are here, and there not seen as a nuisance because of their diet of bugs. In Placencia, our hotel was an addition to the house of Deb and Dave, some ex-pats from California (I love the stories of the Americans who live here, it’s so funny how they just pick up and move to Belize, doing something like that would have never occurred to me). The addition has 5 rooms, a community bathroom, and a screened in porch with a kitchen area. The morning before we left, not even kidding, there was an iguana climbing on the screened in porch. It was at least 3 feet long, just climbing around. I think I’d be a little freaked out if there was an iguana in our room, but I’m fine with the lizards. What we really need is a bat, they eat about 1,000 mosquitoes every hour. Teaching got cancelled this morning because the students have national testing, kind of like the Standford Achievement Tests we had to do in elementary school. Around 10:30 I’m going to help the guys with the park, and then we have more teaching in the afternoon. Tonight we’re having a business group meeting to talk about all of our project work and papers that are due for the class (I do actually have to write some reports to get credit, and I have to write a paper for my scholarship), and I think the fate of the infamous tilapia project will be decided once and for all. I really don’t know what’s going to happen with that, it’s kind of been a mess. There was just a mismatch of expectations and reality (as in there is no possible way 3 undergrads can give you a comprehensive study of the tilapia market in Belize and internationally). We gave an alternative suggestion, and they said they’d give us data, and it hasn’t happenned…I don’t know, I think we’re just going to let Dr. Reyes decide what’s going to happen with that one. I’ll let you guys know how the meeting goes, I need to go and get ready for the park.
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