Coming Home!!!

I can't believe this journey is coming to an end! I'm sitting here in the Park View (looking out onto the beautiful Audubon Park) waiting for my taxi to take me to the airport and back to Long Island... yet I don't feel ready to leave quite yet. It was such a wonderful experience and a taste of what real science is! 

Some of my students have commented on the opportunity to experience something similar and I hope that we will be able to because there is nothing better than exploring and learning through doing! I may not have either a botany or entomology background however I now have such a deeper respect and understanding of both because of my work in the field and that is something that you can never receive from a book. Perhaps I will have to start holding classes outside and exploring the Earth Science that is all around us on our school grounds... depending on the weather that is!

Although there have been many comments on this blog I am going to wait and comment on them in class so that I can pull up the many various pictures that highlight the answers better than I could describe in an online environment. I look forward to being in my classroom with my wonderful students tomorrow and hope that this journey of mine will inspire them to move forward, strive higher, push further towards what they believe is the impossible because I'm sure that they will see as I have, that there is NOTHING that we cannot achieve when we believe in ourselves and try!