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10/19 Ahh dawn again!  The sun is bright, the birds are loud, and there is a light comfortable drizzle coming down.  So my day begins.  Nothing really goes on this morning for a few of us because we want to save our energy for the new exploration this afternoon.  After the typical morning coffee and reading/reflection, we meander over to breakfast and chat about our excursion.  A quick chow down and then off to the boats.  It takes us just under two hours against t...

10/18 Oh my gosh the rain this morning! It was so loud and the wind was so extreme, some of the sheet metal was blowing off the roof.  So I was up at 1:00am off and on, and lied in bed until 4:30am when the sun comes up.  Coffee and books keep me occupied until breakfast comes around at 8:00am.  After a quick breakfast, which I will say, I have never looked forward to peanut butter and plantains more in my life, a few of us search for monkeys just outside of the lodge.  Much...

10/17 This morning, the rain puttered in.  Some light drops here and there.  Hearing the rain always makes the 4 am wake up much more pleasant.  Coffee in the Wi-Fi room before Dr. Bee and I head to the zip lines and breakfast are just so amazing out here in the jungle.  Breakfast is standardly awesome and we vamanos early to the canopy so we can make it back for lunch.  I am getting really proficient in my Spanglish.  It’s a terrible habit.  Any who, Dr...

10/16 The rain dominated the lodge last night!  The stream underneath my lodging is audibly flowing into the Amazon River.  Rain continues through the morning so Dr. Bee and I are not able to take a bird watching tour this morning.  Instead, we post up in the library room, (my coffee room), and listen to the grass roofs amplify the light consistent rain.  A crew from Malta, a tiny island off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea, is hilarious this morning.  They w...

Today is a good day.  I get to wake up and have coffee in the jungle.  I get to help make breakfast for 140 students that attend the school at Esperanza.  We quickly make our way to the village and see that people from many of the outlying villages have come.  Dr. Bee begins to speak with students and some family members about nutrition and pulmonary distress from smoke inhalation.  While she says her two cents, a group of us begin to cook in the cabana next to the schoo...