The forest, the forest, the forest is on fire! So this week we had fire training this week. We have been back on campus for about a week, learning a lot in the classroom. Much of what we learned was about fire behavior, safety, and the policies and procedures surrounding forest firefighting. Although it was 32 hours of sitting in a classroom watching videos and looking at PowerPoints, it was really interesting.
Today we went to the Military Park a looked at 2 sites that will need prescribed burns. We hopefully will be helping with these during the 3rd Round of our projects. It will be really cool to get to burn some areas and implement some of what we learned in real life situations.
Today we also went back to the Military Park at sundown and watched the sunset from the top of a hill. It was so beautiful and fun to be with my team. We were able to see a different part of the park which was cool. This park is so incredible, I cant wait for my parents to come visit so that they can see it. Dad, you will eat it up! So many cool monuments to see! After that we went to this public water fountain in downtown and ran through it. It was just fun to hang out and relax a little bit after a long week of training.
We will be heading back to Lafayette tomorrow morning, so internet will be limited. We start work with Habitat for Humanity on Wednesday, but in the meantime we will be working with an organization I set up a project with called Earthshare Gardens. They are a nonprofit organic farming company that works with the community to educate about healthy agriculture and put together community gardens for organic farming. I'm really excited to work with this organization and can't wait to see the garden on Monday!
I'm hoping this weekend to get a bunch of work done in terms of Graduate School applications.
Talk to you all soon!
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