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For the next two weeks members of the Green Team from Sherwood High School in Maryland will be posting entries on their experiences visiting their sister-school in Yelapa, Mexico! Enjoy! -Jess :)
Today I got up at 7:30 am to go on a hike and look for birds with a small group. We saw so many birds of different colors and sizes with strange names, including macaws, red-breasted doublings, and woodpeckers. For the most part of the trip, the birds chirps had been background noise, but actually paying attention to them and finding out what their names are made it totally different. I completed my quest to be one with nature, imitating the calls of the birds and getting responses from animals, even though they weren't birds. Luis, a man who works at the Casa de Imaginacion (an equivilant to preschool) was our tour guide. He knows all about the
birds: their calls, and their names, and habits. He could mimick the calls of at least fifteen birds that we heard today with precise pitch and tone. He is an amazing person. After bird watching, I went with the group to the elementary school in order to dig holes for the trees we are going to plant there. They had few tools for us to work with, so we switched off workers. After digging 20 holes in rock hard dirt, I know that when I get home I'll have the work ethic to clean my room.
~David
Today I got up at 7:30 am to go on a hike and look for birds with a small group. We saw so many birds of different colors and sizes with strange names, including macaws, red-breasted doublings, and woodpeckers. For the most part of the trip, the birds chirps had been background noise, but actually paying attention to them and finding out what their names are made it totally different. I completed my quest to be one with nature, imitating the calls of the birds and getting responses from animals, even though they weren't birds. Luis, a man who works at the Casa de Imaginacion (an equivilant to preschool) was our tour guide. He knows all about the
birds: their calls, and their names, and habits. He could mimick the calls of at least fifteen birds that we heard today with precise pitch and tone. He is an amazing person. After bird watching, I went with the group to the elementary school in order to dig holes for the trees we are going to plant there. They had few tools for us to work with, so we switched off workers. After digging 20 holes in rock hard dirt, I know that when I get home I'll have the work ethic to clean my room.
~David
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