Blog: June 17
We ate a delicious
breakfast of eggs, fried cheese, corn tortillas, rice and beans. We spent the
entire day working on science. Pablo had a chocolate tour in the morning, so we
were asked to do science in the indoor lab area, which has significantly slower
wifi than on the porch. After a lunch we were able to return outdoors to finish
our research.
Today is the last work
day for our presentation. We had four groups present their findings today. Team
“beta lactamase”
discovered antibiotic resistance in cyanobbacteria found in the oceans. Team “bioluminescence”
studied pathways that make organisms glow. Team “fungus garden” who explored
relations between different gardening insects and team “microbial communities”
compared the abilities of microbes from around the world. Everyone else will
finish presenting tomorrow morning.
Afterwards we ate
dinner, which was an extremely delicious hamburger and plantain fries. Also,
Happy Birthday to Delane who turned 18 today!
Bridget, Olivia, and
Sabrina went to Amy’s house to continue their service project from Monday.
Their job was to find a way to extract
the essential oils from ginger so the women of the village could sell it. The
ginger is cut into very fine pieces and placed in a crockpot with olive oil
where it is heated for two days. Then, the oil has to be poured into a
container so the olive oil and ginger oil can separate. Tomorrow, they
will go back to Amy’s house to figure out a way to separate the ginger oil from
the olive oil.
Olivia and Karin
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