Today I taught five PhD and MSc students in the biodiversity program here at NM-AIST about qualitative monitoring for soil and site stability, hydrologic function and biotic integrity. It was my first chance to take them out in the field. We went down to the basketball court where it had been dug out and we could see some signs of erosion.
The best part of the lab was listening to them discuss each point in KiSwahili – I’m taking a class in the evenings and some of the language is starting to come back to me from my Peace Corps service in Kenya. Their discussion was primarily in KiSwahili with some English words specifically from the exercise thrown in: “Angalia erosion” (Look at the erosion).
We were finally chased out of sitting to discuss the analysis when a bee swarm that we had noticed suddenly lifted out of a tree to move to somewhere else. We also decided to take a different path home since they seemed to be hovering right above our original path.
Hi Tamera! This is so interesting! Thanks for keeping up with your blog entries so we can participate vicariously in your adventures. Love.
It was a fun day! More to come as I get settled.
I’m getting more settled! I have a couple more that I’m ready to get done.
Fascinating reading!!!!! Can’t wait for more!
Thanks! I’m starting to get the hang of this! And a whole lot more here 🙂
I would be a very poor student in your class! I have no idea what you are t.alking about.
I did understand the bee story however!
Keep up the good writing. I enjoy reading about your experiences.