grace notes from monteverde

My wonderful Professors and TAs! Thank you for all your humor, advice, support, and knowledge. 

Enjoying our second to last night at the Estación San Gerardo. Completely done with all our work, we just got to relax, enjoy each other’s company, and remember our great adventure with a slide show and video. 

Part I of our final Costa Rican adventure. A short but beautiful hike to Estación San Gerardo.

Saying goodbye to beautiful Costa Rica and beautiful people Part II at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. 

The beautiful and glorious hike to the Continental Divide.

Hiking up to the Continental Divide as Part I of our final farewell to beautiful Costa Rica and to these beautiful people <3 

The mist is coming in! 

My study site for my ripple bugs (Rhagovelia sp., Veliidae)! The Quebrada Máquina, Monteverde, Costa Rica! 

Also modeling the t-shirt J and I designed :) 

The t-shirt design that my friend J and I created! All our classmates and professors chose a “spirit organism” to have represent them on the shirt :) 

Millipede sex <3 

Pretty excited to get back to the station... And getting pretty homesick <3 

Hanging out at our professor’s house for drinks and a barbecue. 

Going to miss my lovely friends L and Katy (my favorite TA) :) 

Humans in the Tropics day doing interviews with locals about the effects of ecotourism on the local area. 

Had to walk UPHILL to the station everyday to do my research. Got a lot of walking done. 

Beautiful misty walks home. They wet season has begun!