2011

Today I slept much bettere than yesterday. I slept so well, in fact, that me and my room had to be woken up by Doc, who then told us we had fifteen minutes to get down to the group. We got dressed quicklyand ran down to meet the bus/cab. We started the day with a "classroom" lecture about Project...

This morning, our second day in the British Virgin Islands, we got to sleep in, but not by much. As we went down to meet up with everyone, it seemed like everybody was waiting on us. Will Schneider, Alec Sellick, and I approached the group and we realized that we were waiting on our friend and brother,...

The day started out with Doc waking us up, haha, he is such a fun and playful person. Then it got real, Doc told us to wake up everyone the next day, darn; less sleep for Brody :(. After that I took a long breath of morning air. I looked at this world, who am I, why am I...

Today we began promptly at 8:00 am. We quickly got ready and headed down to the Speedy's truck. We took the truck to the hotel where we had breakfast. After a delicious breakfast we had a class. We learned about coral preservation and fish identification. The coral presentation by Samantha was really interesting. After this we ate lunch that...

Today we learned a lot about coral conservation and fish identification. We woke up and headed to the same hotel as yesterday to eat. We had eggs, muffins, and fruit and then began our class and discussions. The first lesson was over things like coral environmental concerns and also coral characteristics and reproduction. The next lesson talked about how...

Today started out with a bang.... We were told that we the rocks were off limits for the trip. Although this may have been my fault, it was still a major blow. After this we went directly to breakfast. It was at the same place as last time, the yellow hotel. As breakfast was ending Sam and andrew started...

Today we woke up to the banging of our door. I went down to the street to wait for speedys and then we were off. We arrived and old yard hotel again for some breakfast. It was yummy. Then we started our class on coral reefs and fish i.d. . Sam started engaging us in talks about corals reefs....

Today we finally got in the water and didn't have any "tests" to do. Paul and I were dive partners again and our group went to Ginger Island. It looked absolutely stunning from on top of the water because the water was just this awesome greenish-blue color. The only thing strange I've noticed here is that it doesn't smell...

After a slightly chaotic and info-stuffed day, due to all the introductory things we we were told about the coursework and the island itself, today was where the instructors slowed us down a bit and let our minds really sink in to all what we were doing. However my day began hectic since I had forgotten to set...