POV: Bahamian Basketball

Hello readers, 

We started our day with a delicioso breakfast of eggs, bagels, muffins, and our daily orange juice. We were immediately ushered into the library to work on our research projects for most of the morning. Some made more progress than others, who engaged in a game of Great Bahamian Basketball. 

Francine’s POV: Breakfast was great. We had eggs…let’s skip to the good part. After breakfast my group (Shannon, Sophia and I) decided to take a good 10 minute break after working on our proposal for what seemed like years. We stumbled upon Kailee playing ball with Mike, Angie and a few of our other classmates. They needed to pick up the pace. I need action, I need agility, I need it all. This lead to me becoming side coach. Honestly Mike was looking like Jebron Lames. All jokes aside Mike still got it, but I must say Angie was towering over Mike like he was 5’2. That 10 minute break lasted until lunchtime. Mike’s team won. The final score was 20-22. 

Kailee’s POV: First off shout out to my team for winning with 3 in the most epic basketball game of the Bahama century. Morgan served as our MVP absolutely securing those routes and Mike was our star rebounder with just straight swishes. The other team put up a fight but the top dogs rose up in the end absolutely demolishing the them with our brazy tactics! 🐕

After the basketball, we ate another of our favorite meals: burgers, fries, and orange drink, with strangely, one of our newest favorite items, canned peaches. 

After lunch, part of the group decided to stay at Gerace to work on projects, while the others left with Kathy Gerace to see the Fortune Hill Plantation on San Salvador. 

Cooper’s POV: We hiked through a bunch of thorn bushes for like 30 mins to get the the ruins of the plantation. It was like 80° and Mike made us wear long pants and long sleeves so we were sweating. We eventually got to the plantation, it was super overgrown and only had like 3 partial buildings left since the hurricane knocked most of it out. 

Francine’s POV: Plantation time came. The class left and I went for a swim with Payola. As I lay in the sea belly side down, I think about copper and what she could be doing at the plantation….that thought only last 5 seconds. I finished my luxurious swim in the Atlantic sea, took a shower and basically went into an academic grind waiting for my group to come back from the plantation.

For dinner, we had spaghetti, salad, chocolate cake, and our least favorite, purple drink. After dinner, we headed to the classroom for our nightly class. 

Cooper’s POV: My group presented our research proposal on herbivorous fish grazing patterns in connection with algae nutritional content throughout the day. 

Kailee’s POV: We talked about our figure analysis, an article about bonefish and queen conch populations and determining if they’re open or closed populations using SNPs. I was super stoked to present figure 8!!!!!!!!!

Shoutout to Shannon’s dad, Mark, we love your comments. 

Peace and Love, 

Francine, Cooper & Kailee