pictures part 2

our dining commons area...that white board was filled with fond memories.
the living room area of our dorm. lots of cheesy mystery and romance books on those shelves for people who have nothing to do with their lives. the staircase leads to the girls living quarters. on the right is Irma. we have a special relationship: she calls me "jackie chan". jackie chan=jonathan, kinda sounds the same right? i think the majority of my mosquito bites, including the infamous ones occured here.


here's a nice panorama of the north part of the island. the two bays can be seen on the right side of the photo.

PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES (part one)

Alright where to start? here we go , this here is our beloved Gump Research Station... Buildings from the left to the right: we have the dorm area, the cabanna, the blue tanks (of death), the wet lab, and the research labs. the shot is actually a 360 view and so the right part of the picture actually part of the left. Now, im going to take you directly through the center of the photograph:
As you can see, the wet lab is actually divided into two buildings: the touch tank area and that other building with the green roof, touch tanks are places where experiments with organisms are carried out. lots of fish tanks along here. you can also see the blue tanks (of death) out on the right to give you a sense of direction. Continuing on...
If you walked through the wet lab, you would have gotten here: the dock area, this is where we load up our boats, park them, and lay stuff out to dry.

Now we are going out of this area and going towards the right of the first photograph, the brown building...The building itself is made up of two floors.

this here is our computer lab located on the second floor of the research lab building. If you wanted to know where i am sitting, i usually sit in the far chair of the left side. (i believe my backpack is there) . this is the dwelling place of janky internet.this is one of the lower level labs. this one in particular was known as the dirt lab; but UCLA did all of our in lab experiments here. as we were leaving, a smithsonian team took over. apparently they wanted to make a complete genome project of every single organism found in Moorea (quite a feat)

Wrapping up the last days

wow...where to even start? starting from last weekend things have been very exciting. on saturday night, we went out to a tahitian concert on the island. what was really exciting was that the band featured was the same one to which we had our dance numbers to! the concert wasnt just a concert in itself but it also featured dancers, and for the first time, we got to see how the dances really were supposed to act (we really butchered it). sunday was a day to finally wrap up our projects. we went out to various parts of the bay to collect our cages. luckily this time we had a boat, so we didnt have to swim all over the place.

however, we were far from finished. we had to work on synthesizing and interpreting our data for our presentations today. but...it's all over.

tonight there's supposed to be a toga dance party/undie run....yay.... (note the sarcasm).

this will probably be one of the last entries for this blog site. thanks for joining in on the ride...i will be updating this site with pictures.

see ya.