Hi all! It’s been awhile but exciting things have happened since my last post. First of all, it has been raining here randomly the past three nights and temperature has gone down quite a bit because of it. I’m actually wearing a long sleeve sweat shirt as I’m writing because it’s a bit chilly. The rain was definitely a surprise for most of us and when it did rain we all woke up in the middle of the night to take it in. Second, we are now moving along into our third module: Paleontology and Ancient Environments of the Turkana Basin with Rene Bobe, Meave Leakey and Fredrick Manthi who have all been keeping us busy with class. A lot of material is covered in this class since it is taught by three people and we are all trying very hard to absorb all that is being taught. Rene Bobe especially is teaching us all sorts of things about animals, from their evolutionary history to what they eat to every bone in their body; I’m proud to say I now can identify most bones on many animals, which is something I had little knowledge of before this. We have also gone fossil hunting twice now and on our second trip I’ve had the luck of finding the teeth of an extinct giraffe specie named sivatherium, which is said to be the first of its kind found here at South Turkwell, another hooray!
Since we didn’t really go anywhere too far recently I thought I could tell you guys what a typical day is like here at TBI. Here is a schedule of a regular class day;
7-7:30am- wake up
8am- breakfast
8:30am- 12pm – class with tea and biscuits somewhere in between
12pm- 3:30pm – lunch/break/nap
3:30 – 5pm or 6 – class/lab/study
5:30 – 8:00 – break/study/shower (sun sets at 7pm)
8:00 – dinner
10pm/11pm- sleep
So there you go, that’s how we spent most of our days here when we are not going out. We usually take a big break after lunch because it gets very hot in the afternoon, and since there is no air conditioning it’s very hard to concentrate so we resume class at 3:30 when things cool down a bit.
Here are some pictures of us going about in our daily activities:
Fossil hunting with Meave Leakey.
Removing sand/soil off of fossil.
Sivatherium (an extinct giraffe-like specie) found on erosion surface 3 days ago.
Students examining different bones of animals.
A typical lunch at TBI.
Students enjoying lunch after spending the whole morning outside.
Students in class.
Skulls at the TBI lab.
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