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12-11-19

Today was a good day! So today we went hiking on the water trail. I thought it was just going to be walking through a path but it was more than that. We went through a steep muddy hill, walked through the creek, and even climbed over a few trees. We still got our 6 soil samples from the ag pasture site. Then we collected half for our secondary forest and did some lab work (testing our samples for bacteria and fungi and the abiotic testing like Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous). Next thing we had a culture sharing with the indigenous people again. The lady was showing us how they make their little bags which comes from a leaf. Then I was sharing some photos of my home and just continued sharing culture.

The hike was a good hike. I felt like I was an actual explorer walking through some treacherous areas. Then after the hike, I took a shower to cool down and it felt so good. Then during our lab work, it was pretty cool to see what I'm helping out with. Then during that night was pretty cool. I showed how sometimes the roads get like and show what we use for our prayers and talked about that. I also showed them my snap map to let them see where I come from. It was a really cool to also how that one guy became leader of his tribe. And I also noticed that he said that he's also still trying to keep rights with his tribe which reminds me of our tribes in North America. I thought that was interesting.

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