First Day at LUMCON
A few weeks ago I met a girl on facebook that is in both my classes this summer. Her name is Malorie. She goes by mally_moe on LJ. We followed each other to the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON). After driving really for 2-3 hours and getting a little lost, we arrived at the end of the earth aka Cocodrie, Louisiana. We start 6 weeks of marine field classes tomorrow morning. After attending orientation and getting a tour of the facility, we started to get to know the other people there. There are a total of 6 girls and 1 guy in the Marine Inverts class that starts tomorrow. My roommate is named Jeane. Like me she's into birdwatching and has a bunny back at home. Malorie and her roommate Leah (also from LSU) share a bathroom with us. The other two girls in our class, Evelyn and Nyah, share a room across the hall. The guy, Jeremy, is in the boy's wing of the dorms.
There are fiddler crabs running around everywhere. It's hard not to step on them. Some guy from the other class, Intro to Marine Zoology, caught a big speckled kingsnake and we held it and petted it. It didn't try to bite at all. We had pizza for dinner. The dorms are really nice. One entire wall is one-way glass and looks out onto the balcony and across the marsh. Jeane, Leah, Malorie, and I went to Walmart to get snack food. We had to drive all the way back to Houma, about 30 minutes away to reach civilization. Well there are lots of houses on stilts and shrimp boats out here but not much else.
There are fiddler crabs running around everywhere. It's hard not to step on them. Some guy from the other class, Intro to Marine Zoology, caught a big speckled kingsnake and we held it and petted it. It didn't try to bite at all. We had pizza for dinner. The dorms are really nice. One entire wall is one-way glass and looks out onto the balcony and across the marsh. Jeane, Leah, Malorie, and I went to Walmart to get snack food. We had to drive all the way back to Houma, about 30 minutes away to reach civilization. Well there are lots of houses on stilts and shrimp boats out here but not much else.