Day 10: Tuesday

Hi guys!

After battling a very large cricket in my room last night I had finally fallen asleep. (I killed the cricket on accident! But, it is not longer in my room!) I woke up at my normal time got ready for the day. Hannah and I went to breakfast where I had toast with strawberry jam, a 1/2 cold waffle, and breakfast potatoes. I think the toast with jam is becoming my favorite.

Once we finished, we walked up to Sululta to see what was on the agenda today. Olivier informed us that we would be going to Debre Zeit research 'farm' on Thursday. Otherwise, neither Dr. Tadelle or Dr. Olivier had given us anything to do. Dr. Tadelle pulled Hannah into his office and went over the basis of her project. Comparing three certain breeds of chicken in growth and mortality rates. In the time being, I checked out my college expenses, read some of my book 'One Second After', and just killed the morning time.

Around lunch time, neither Hannah nor I were very hungry so we decided to go for a walk around the compound's trails. The trail was very pretty and we even saw a few more of Dr. Jean Hanson's fields that had been planted. The brush is also very pretty to see. I didn't get any pictures but, I will sometime soon!

We came back to Sululta to see if Dr. Tadelle was back from his lunch. Unfortunately, he was not so I asked Olivier if there were any idea for my project. He told me it would be planned out fully on Thursday on our visit to Debre Zeit. They are not sure what is there for cattle at the moment but he guessed that I would be measuring growth/production through nutrition. I will be very excited if that is my project. I am becoming very interested in nutrition side of things along with my long time interest of reproduction.

Next, we started to go on a hunt to figure out how to obtain our meal stipends from the World Food Prize. No one really seemed to know what we were looking for or what we were doing here. One man in finance did tell us that they still had to prepare some paperwork. He told us to come back tomorrow, so we are hoping that the money is ready tomorrow! We went to dinner afterwards. Hannah got the Club Sandwich and I got the Egg Sandwich with cheese. It was really good but the proportions are getting the best of me! They are big and neither of us are always able to finish.

After dinner, Hannah and I came back to our rooms for what has become our 'daily nap' and chill out time. The weather was fair all day except around 4 pm when it started to rain and stopped around 6 pm. Tomorrow, we are touring that actual Gene Bank with Dr. Jean Hanson. I am super excited to see that!