Friday, February 19, 2010

2/8/2010

It was a long day in the lecture hall today. It started with trying to install Statistica on all of our computers, which was complete chaos, followed by a statistics lecture on the ANOVA test. That lasted from 8 until 1045. At 1115, we had a lecture on the management and ethics of elephant populations, and where we are now. That lasted until 1. At 2, we had a lecture on parametric versus nonparametric tests, though I still don’t really know the difference. After that, we went on a quick walk to look at herbs, then came back for an introduction to our first independent projects, which lasted until 5. I got my first choice (small mammals), which was nice after getting my fourth choice for our faculty field project (insect communities).
After lectures, we had to pack up books (I’m one of the “librarians,” and that’s one of my duties). Unfortunately there were some missing, but it shouldn’t be a big deal. When we were done, we ran to the buckies so that we could go on our last game drive in Nylsvley. We got in Alan’s, and were off! He drove through the puddles fast again  and no one started bleeding! Yay! We just drove around for a while, looking for things, when we saw a giraffe. Alan then pulled over the bucky, and suggested that we get out and see if we could get closer to it. We walked slowly up to it, and saw another one on our way over. We followed them for a while (as we got too close, they would run away), and then we veered off to look for other things. While we were out there, we saw the giraffes, a warthog, a jackal, about 30 birds all in one area, and 4 zebras with a colt. Amazing. I have now been 100 feet away from two giraffes in the wild. I can’t even explain the feeling. Then we came back and packed. Tomorrow we leave at 630 in the morning. Woo for internet so you can actually read these! (You guys are probably going to think I’m crazy for writing like I’m talking to you day by day when I post these all at once, but I have been writing this every night just for your reading pleasure) Word of the day: The food is nice = Shakooja kananzayga.

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The Joke

It's a frickin' elephant

A class of five-year old students are learning to read.

One of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,

"Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"

The teacher took a deep breath, then asked... "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"

And so it does...
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" A f r i c a n Elephant "