Projecto!!!!

So it's been a while since I posted, but the past week, and last Friday, has been pretty boring. We've started project work and basically have been stressing out about that for a while. We've got the idea all set but all the details are so hard to nail down and agree on that the first few days had no success. We basically yelled at each other until we decided we were getting nothing done and divided into groups. That seemed to work better.

And me being me, I like to go wherever I'm needed, so if you don't tell me where I'm needed....Well, this is awkward. Basically I ended up doing the graphics for the problem and objective tree (ITS COLOR CODED :)). And I'll get to write out all of the background stuff to how the trees are layed out, and I'll work on Research and Methods for the paper. Simple, boring stuff that you and I and probably even Exxon doesn't care about. But it needs to get done, so we're doing it!

The other eventful parts of the week have been:

Carnivore Supervisor talk about his trip to Borneo (SE Asian Island, extreme biodiversity!) and how he helped set up camera traps to capture pictures of clouded leopards to perform conservation research on them. So guess what! We got to go through the pictures!!!! And record data on them! I know that sounds sarcastic, but I was excited. We did that Wednesday actually, went through thousands (only got to 660ish) photos recording time, animal, date, action, number, etc. It sounds tedious, but it's so mind numbing, it was actually kind-of nice. I appreciated it because I knew I was helping someone out somewhere in the world, and I know I would appreciate it if I was a conservationist.

Anyway, the other cool thing we did was talk to the Zoo directors about their Gorilla Project!!! It's all super confidential, so I can't share too much, but the second Phase of African forest (built by makers of Disney, or something) is going to be a huge immersion tour of the Gorillas. It's super cool and really exciting! We got to see the schematics and drawings and graphics and it looks really cool. It makes me want to be a director some day, but then again, I don't like money, so nevermind.

But yeah, that's been my uneventful week! I'll keep you up to date, but I'm pretty much finished! I'll try to be more interesting later :)