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4.4.03

Last week was more of an office week. Not too exciting I suppose, mostly office related duties.

Jocelyn and I went to El Portal on Wednesday to kind of finish up our interviews for the website. We had a good time talking and interviewing Wildlife Biologist, Steve Thompson. We were able to get some good information.

Then on Thursday there was a get together in the East Auditorium for "Women's History Month." We were able to see some beautiful quilts, artwork, beading, baskets, etc. all created by women. And we listened to some female speakers talk about their life in Yosemite. It was very interesting.

After that I took off on a fun-filled three-day weekend to Reno, Nevada with my boyfriend, where we played around town and went to a freestyle motocross race for his birthday. It was definitely a good time. It's nice to get away sometimes.

This week I have been working with a group of students from Orosi, CA. These eighth graders were great. An absolutely amazing group of students. It was another great week for me.

Well, we met up with the group on Tuesday and went on a hike up the Yosemite Falls Trail to "Oh My Gosh Rock." It was so great getting to be with the students and see their reactions when they saw the falls. But my favorite part of the day was actually when two of the girls in the group came up to me to find out about these balls on the branches of the trees, which ended up being galls. It was so much fun because I love to tell people things that they don't know, and the two girls seemed to really get into it.

Then Wednesday started out as a bad day because when I woke up I had lost my voice and I was getting sick. But I still went out with the group. It ended up snowing pretty hard that day and the students loved it. They made snowmen and had snowball fights.

We went to Happy Isles Nature Center and then analyzed the samples inside under microscopes and stuff. That was amazing getting to see how much the students really got into dealing with the bugs and getting the data for us. They did a great job.

Thursday, sadly, was out last day all together, because the students were leaving early Friday morning. So, we tried something new and took them to El Capitan Meadow and had them do some bird watching and classifying. That went over well. Then we made our way back towards Curry Village. Meanwhile getting into many snowball fights along the way. That was tons of fun. And we ended our day with the spider caves.

Thursday night however was campfire. Well, there ended up being a little misunderstanding as to who was running it. And so, nobody showed up and it was just the students and I. So I invited them over for ice cream and cookies. That was my good bye to them and the end of a great week.