About Me

I'm a 27 year-old from Los Angeles, California, with a BA from Tufts University and an MSc in Primate Conservation from Oxford Brookes University. My passion is primates, so I like to spend my time in remote areas traveling, researching, and rehabilitating apes and monkeys! Email me directly at AmandaClaireHarwood@gmail.com Also check out my other blog http://www.AmandaHinArgentina.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Monkey Camp

Hey guys,
I made it to CARE just fine. My overnight flight had good movies so I watched 127 Hours and The Social Network (yes, again) and Unstoppable which was actually really good. An entertaining Denzel afternoon flick.

It is suuuper hot here since it's the end of summer and I'm wishing I brought more than one pair of shorts haha. It has to be like 90 degrees, but a nice dry heat, not remotely as humid as Iguazu. It should start to cool down though in a couple of months. There are about 15 or so kids here and most are here long term for months and months which is nice. A lot of things are different. There's really only one group of babies we sit with throughout the day (last time I was here there were three groups). There is a second group of older baboons that only get sat with twice a day because they are being weened off of people, which is sad because I like the larger ones. They tend to be a bit more rowdy and fun. These younger ones I've found already to be a bit on the slow side. So there seems to be plenty of time to do lots of reading!

Anyways, that's about all the news I have. I'm working on making friends, staying cool, and learning babies' names.

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