Thursday, June 21, 2018

Day 5: Horseback Riding and Science (AND THE GREAT FALL)






Hello everybody, it's ya boiz Amogh (the smaller brown one) and Alex. We're here to update you on the daily grind. The Wayzata peoples' (the better school) day started with a regular delicious/healthy breakfast at 7:30 contrary to the Chan/Chaska/East Ridge day which started at 6:00. If you are wondering, today was the best day in terms of climate, it was not too hot nor cold with a gentle breeze. In other words the day was perfect except for it.

The saddest part of the day occurred during breakfast. So up until today we had two professors working  and guiding us. Today at breakfast Professor Adrian Pinto revealed that he had external business with work. We all gave pinto our best wishes and a card with everybody's signatures (including the signature of the person who took the fall) to show how grateful we were.

Now jumping into the part of the day that makes your 💲💲💲 worth. At 14:00 we started day 1 of science research projects. We started with our research groups (including the fallen member) and examined the petri dishes to examine fungi growth. Afterwards we setting up the experiments (the final experiment), taking preliminary tests, and starting the lab notebooks (they track the progress of the experiment). Everybody made significant progress and had a great time. 

After breakfast, we went horseback riding and received an amazing opportunity to view the Costa Rican landscape. We started the experience with pairing up students and staff with horses based on experience level. The tour went well with the horses taking the students along the path. Overall, basically all the students were completely OK. The horseback riding was one of the most eventful activity that happened all week long. 

Oh yea and one more thing, one of the horses acted up. After the picture below was taken half the students started going back (they figured out how to move their horse). One horse started to follow the first group then decided to stop on its own accord. This particular student felt alone and lost in between two groups. When the second group started heading back Pablo,  ( the owner of the Eco-hotel in which we are staying at ) who was accompanying us, helped the student move his horse. The horse moved, but not in the way the student wished. The horse went into full gallop in a fraction of a second and went AWOL. The student had no idea what was going on and was taken aback. The horse was heading straight for the trunk of an enormous tree with the student loosing his grip on the horse. He let go of his grip and slipped off the horse with five feet between him and the tree. He rolled away just in time; however, he was not free of consequences. He walked away away from accident almost unscathed. I sat down because I was seeing back dots everywhere and there was a ringing in my head. Mrs. Leland and the other staff showed great responsibility and took me to a local hospital to get checked up. The doctor said that I would be perfectly fine and that I showed no symptoms of a concussion or anything else. 





P.S I'm ok, I'm writing this right now, and you can see me in the picture above (on the right).



3 comments:

  1. The fallen one - glad you are okay!! Nice explanation of how you fell.. it’s scary but am glad you escaped unscathed..
    Am glad all of u are having great time and learning along with fun.. big thanks to Ms Leland for making him call us and talk to us.. appreciate it..

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