Day One

Hi All,

Off to a pretty good start. For those who have to get the rest of the forms or payment in, please do so by tomorrow. Also, at this point, this trip does not happen unless we find one more male chaperone and one female chaperone.

Today, we made our field journals, and answered the following prompts:
What are you expecting from this field experience?
How do you feel that you will best contribute to the field team?

Then we got an introduction to the National Parks.

After lunch, we took the opportunity to surf the Pinnacles website, identify interesting facts, and share them with the larger group. We also reviewed the packing list and travel itinerary for next week.

We will begin researching and developing brochures about different features of Pinnacles National Monument tomorrow.

TONIGHT'S PROMPT FOR HOMEWORK:
What do you hope to learn from this experience?
Answer this by building on things that may have interested you about Pinnacles from today's work. We will share these responses tomorrow.

One reminder that we all need to come ready to contribute to the larger group. There were some rough moments today, and I expect everyone to be ready tomorrow.