From lions to homework...

We’ve been back from Tsavo for almost a week now and in that time we’ve had three big assignments due, a couple more field exercises, and a minimum of five hours of class a day. We’ve had a pretty consistent workload up until this point, but homework isn’t nearly as exciting to write (or read) about.

Right when we got back from Tsavo we had our first true non-scheduled rest day of the entire semester. Of course, that would have been boring so we scheduled our own fun. Two of the students here, Catie and Nic, had been talking to Daniel about milk. The Maasai have been pastoralists forever and most of the time the only thing a herder will take in all day while he’s out with the cattle is milk. Catie and Nic told Daniel that it was scientifically impossible for a human to drink a gallon of milk in an hour and keep it down. Daniel insisted that he could and a bet was made. Not only did Daniel drink an entire gallon of WHOLE milk in an hour, he drank the first TWO liters in less than six minutes. Then he waited almost the rest of the time out and drank the last part of the gallon in another five minutes. He looked a little miserable, but Catie and Nic ended up paying him over $70 USD and he kept it all down. The best part was all of the support he got from the rest of the staff and most of the students. Marius (who was the last staff member left in the game of assassin in Tsavo) was dressed up in a track suit like his coach. When Daniel had finished, he was sitting under a tree and one of the students brought an electronic fan out to make him more comfortable and Marius examined it for a second and then turned it on himself while waving a hand haphazardly in Daniel’s direction. High comedy.



Otherwise things have been pretty quiet at camp.


This is the first time in a while I've been able to get my blog to work very well, so I thought I'd post some pictures. Our internet connection gets a little crowded sometimes. This picture is of my car in Tsavo. I would like to point out that I look much shorter because Ben and Rose are sitting on the top of the car. I might also actually be quite a bit shorter. The three in the front from left to right are Haley, Conrad, and Catie.

The picture below is of one of the two wild dogs we saw in Tsavo. Credit goes to Spenser for both of these because my camera ran out of batteries. There is another picture of just me that I refuse to post for general public consumption, but I will distribute it by special request. I had my assassin safeties on and in the picture I have been compared to G.I. Jane. Huh. I guess there's no better time to resemble G.I. Jane than when in Tsavo West National Park.