Well I lied about not having internet here... I guess it would be tough to do research up at the station if there wasn't any... The field station has been pretty awesome so far, despite the freezing cold and rain every day (I am currently wearing as many layers as I brought down here). It is really beautiful up here, and its been nice to have time to just hike around, read in a hammock, sleep, etc. One of the guys up here has been waiting on a part for his research project, so he and I have become partners in crime of uselessness. We've been helping another girl a lot with her project on dung beetles, which generally involves us setting traps at different altitudes using human "ca-ca", and then picking them up, sorting and
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