Wednesday and Thursday - July 23rd and 24th

I haven’t taken any pictures because I’ve pretty much stayed at the John Knox center for the past couple of days. We’ve all been really busy working on our sites and our research papers.

On Wednesday night we had a conference with Juana and Jorge Flores from the Cozumel Parks and Museum Foundation. Juana and Jorge are in Cozumel, and they don’t speak English, so we also had their daughter, Paula, on the call. She is in Florida. The call was very interesting and they were excited by our work so far. The only fly in the ointment was that the call was at midnight our time. We finished our part at about 1:45 in the morning, and I didn’t get to bed until about 2:30. Sharman said that we could sleep in the next morning, but I woke up at 7:30 and figured I might as well get up and go to class.

On Thursday a man named Sameer Thapar was here from India to talk to us about Dev Info, a database system used by the UN. You can get facts about just about anything using their site and easily create tables, graphs, maps, etc. It’s a great tool for schools, and I may us it with my older kids next year. I met with Dr. Dorfman to discuss my paper in the afternoon and then had some free time. I rested for a bit before dinner. We ate outside at the picnic tables and sat chatting until about 10:30. Well, I went in at 10:30. Others stayed out there longer.

For all the work there are still mountains and cowbells and sunshine and cool breezes to make the days pleasant.

Tomorrow we’re going to a restaurant where they yodel and play those long Swiss horns. I’ll take my camera. Hopefully I’ll get some nice pictures this weekend as well.