There are many things I learned today, 1 dead bodies are buried under sand on the beaches, 2 people poop orange due to malnutrition, 3 people poop on the beaches, 4 I can survive a rip tide, 5 the book Life of Pi begins where I am staying describes the area accurately, and 6 seashells are very pretty. So needless to say I have learned a lot and it is only 15:31! crazy right? and yes, I am now using Army time cause that is what everyone uses here. In about an hour we will be walking to the village and playing and having fun with the children there and then go with them to night school. After which we will be going to Ravi's house and enjoying a cook out then falling asleep to enjoy our first day off!
Well I guess I should explain my day a little more. Today we went to the beach known as Bommayapayalam there we dodged poop bombs and wet patches and collected sand samples along a transect and also formed transects so we can later make a topographic map of the beach and discuss the reverence of tidal patterns and beach erosion to sand size. However while we were there a few of us decided to go swimming. I of course went just beyond the last sand bar (where we might have been warned previously not to go) and got pulled out and flipped upside down. Thankfully my mother made me take those swimming classes and so I was able to semi surface and swim parallel to the coast line and eventually I broke free from it. So thank you mom. Then we started doing our GIS work that's when a few of us started to realize there were long lumps of sand all over the upper portion of the beaches. Then slowly the reality hit us that all of these coastal villages used the beach as a burial site, toilet, and place to park their boats, all because inland there is no space and the rest of the coast is being destroyed.
Also as I mentioned everyone to get a great idea of what it is like where I am read Life of Pie, the author even talks about eating with your hands which yes I do all the time with anything from yogurt, soup to noodles, or rice. For some reason being able to hold your food, it makes it taste so much more interesting (maybe due to the fact you experience more of its texture?). He also mentions numerous areas I have mentioned Lakshmi who is the goddess of wealth whose temple I went to and got blessed by an elephant.
Well I guess I should explain my day a little more. Today we went to the beach known as Bommayapayalam there we dodged poop bombs and wet patches and collected sand samples along a transect and also formed transects so we can later make a topographic map of the beach and discuss the reverence of tidal patterns and beach erosion to sand size. However while we were there a few of us decided to go swimming. I of course went just beyond the last sand bar (where we might have been warned previously not to go) and got pulled out and flipped upside down. Thankfully my mother made me take those swimming classes and so I was able to semi surface and swim parallel to the coast line and eventually I broke free from it. So thank you mom. Then we started doing our GIS work that's when a few of us started to realize there were long lumps of sand all over the upper portion of the beaches. Then slowly the reality hit us that all of these coastal villages used the beach as a burial site, toilet, and place to park their boats, all because inland there is no space and the rest of the coast is being destroyed.
Also as I mentioned everyone to get a great idea of what it is like where I am read Life of Pie, the author even talks about eating with your hands which yes I do all the time with anything from yogurt, soup to noodles, or rice. For some reason being able to hold your food, it makes it taste so much more interesting (maybe due to the fact you experience more of its texture?). He also mentions numerous areas I have mentioned Lakshmi who is the goddess of wealth whose temple I went to and got blessed by an elephant.
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