Day 4: Hot Coco and Science



The road to the village (Heath).

View of the cabins (Heath).

This morning was another morning of waking up at 6:45 and trying to get Jake out of bed. This morning we had the best breakfast yet with pancakes and eggs. After this we went to the classroom to check out our experiment from two days ago. Our group (the 3 A.M. Beans) had a sort of successful experiment with bacteria all over our dishes like planned. We went on for the rest of that session of class watching two movies about the leaf cutter ants. The next thing we had was lunch which was also the best so far with spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic toast. After this we had a short break, so I decided to wander around the farm and take pictures. I spent thirty minuets taking pictures until I got back and hung out with a few friends at the cabin. Then at 2 our next class began with our group discussing which major project we wanted to do. It took some time, but we finally ended up with something we could all agree upon. The project we are doing is comparing two Atta Leaf Cutter Ant fungus gardens and seeing if the younger colonies had less Escovopsis than the older ones. We then had dinner which I skipped to work on the project, but it did look good. Then the class gave presentations and when we went up we had some difficulties, but by the help of Dr. Pento we ended up fixing our project and we should be ready to go. What did brighten up our failure though was that Dr. Pento said it was the most original out of the groups for ants.
Heath Pennington


Walking to the village (volcano in the distance). By: Charlie

We are the chubachabras. Our hypothesis was that polar opposites on the pH scale will work well as replants. The leaf cutter ants eat up the cacao leaves. We want to find out the best substance to repel these ants. Other than science we had hot chocolate and churros. I had 6 churros, because I was deathly hungry. Elijah and I combined our clothes and sent them to the laundry. It stunk, but it is now out and clean. I broke 2 chairs. That was funny. I loved the oats and yogurt.

Charlie Pankonin

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  1. Martha EwingMay 30, 2019 at 8:54 PM

    @Heath: I would love to hear the story behind your team name...3AM Beans!!!? :)

    @Charlie: Me encantan los churros!

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