Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to this... nothing much exciting has happened in the last week or so. We had a going away party for this kid Fabio who was going back to school in Spain. They made arepas, which are a bread with this meat, chicken, corn, veggie mix on top = absolutely delicious. Then we had another late night out dancing in town, but luckily I didn't have to work that morning. My computer is a little busted, the e key doesn't work, so I have to ctrl-v (paste) an e every time i need to use one. And I accidentally knocked my friend's computer on the floor and shattered its screen, so basically 5 of us only have my slow computer to use. It sucks.

We spent a few days without being able to find our monkey group. I had to walk around the jungle for hours hoping to run into them, but with no luck. It was a very frustrating couple of days. But we're making some good progress on getting the data we need. And I'm making some good progress on learning to play the guitar. The two boys here play and have been teaching me chords. They say I'm picking it up quickly, but I'm not so sure, especially since I'm tone-deaf. But Boi taught me to play Brown eyed Girl and that's what I've been working on. I really hope I can get decently good at it in the next five months. My groups has been hanging out in town at the river, the Rio Iguazu, which is gorgeous and really chill.

There's been some drama in our group lately. My boss has some issues with the administrator who runs the research station that we stay at, and we have to be on our very best behavior or we'll be evicted and have to live somewhere else. So we've had meetings and meetings and meetings, and we're safe for the time being, but all a little unnerved.

I did spend some time at the waterfalls, and I'll post some of those pictures as soon as I can, hopefully later today at the Sheraton, to show how unbelievable they really are. The other day I saw some Pecaris, small wild hogs. A troop of about 10 of them crossed the road a few meters away from us, but luckily they didn't turn and attack us, as they've been known to do. I think they were pretty cute. Then I almost stepped on a coral, or fake coral - I didn't get a great look at it- snake. Those are the red ones with black and white stripes. It was a good animal sighting day. Today is a rain day and we're supposed to be cataloguing our data, but I really don't want to do any of that.

P.S. mom-- send me an email!