What i signed up for

Absence of Text these past couple days does not mean the absence of stories to tell.

Picture this: walking as if blindfolded from research site into beach, having to wait 5 min to actually acclimate eyes to darkness and be able to see your hands (barely), accompanied by starlit skies, over 500 tourists starving for action, as we try to get our first ever tagging groove on. Thats only a bit of what happened last night.... And i havent even talked about the sloth we fount disoriented crawling like "my precious" from lord of the rings, on his way for a midnight surf and our "hero" teamsmen attempting to carry it too safety and getting visciously attacked (or at least thats what us winggirls will tell the chicas as la disco. They have nice battlewounds to prove it :))in return.

And i also havent talked about our 5 hour day tracking madrugada under 95 degrees, building a taxi driver tan by the minute and accumulating tons of sand in yournshoes, while making the most educated guesses as to new and old tracks, what species it pertains to, if its nest was highjacked, if it only got to cleaning or builging eggchamber stage but no tamale.... Or if it laid a healthy nest ready to emerge aprox 60 days from then. That was the morning before todays. Ending the 5hr beach walk, sunstuck like never before and -excuse the embarrasing comparison- like Aimes(one of my fav contestors from the last bachelorette haha) after he got hit in thenboxing ring- completely knocked out.

TODAY, also around 5:44 AmM we were deposited VIP style at the Boca of the river, and right away encoungered to sea turtle corpses, bottom shell and all flippers removed (by one of ourn own) ... and started the archie carr park portion of the tracking... This time more officially and confidently.

And now (very rushingly bringing up up to speed)

Worked 13hrs plus today, starting at 5:30 am, and now have a 4.5 hr break before our midnight patrolling (and first ever tagging session).

Tagged my first cardboard box moments ago haha. Also measured a 119 m sea turtle model. Both It stod still most of the time, and i hooe it didnt hurt too much :P. I get to do the real deal, with a freshky post labor one duringour midnight-4am patrol (hopefully!).

Completely exhausted, bit simultaneously envigorated. My permanent resting posture here is on my top bunk w my legs propped against the wall, daining poor and abused palpitating feet, as my ipad provides the remaining r&r.

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Internalizing-

This is definitely what i signed uo for : anxiety and excitement twd the unknown, curiosity to try and improve on something new, challenging, significant and inspiring. As well as the grownup stuff: discipline, hardwork, patience, preserverance, and teamwork. :)

"test to my person.". Aka, can i dig it?

Also, female turtles, this magnicent beast nomading their way around the world, i seemed to find quite some similarities bw their behavior in mine or femlalesin general(roll w me)...
- determined
- tempermental
- hardworking
- indecisive
- confusing and confused
- making things more complicated at times
- cautious
- planned
- independant
- travellers

Its me ina turtle shell, haha. And im surenill find more similarities in a few hrs...
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I know this is jumbled up. Pero la siesta es ahora o nunca. Ill give u a turtle lesson blog tomorrow, w a photo collage. Only if more people actuakly FOLLOw my blog. Feeling mighty lonely now.