Friday, December 3, 2010

Work Weekend

This past weekend, several students and staff took the chance to get their hands dirty, their clothes stained, and their muscles worked by volunteering at the Belize Zoo and the Belize Botanical Gardens!

The Belize Zoo was hit hard by Hurricane Richard and has been trying to recover since. Marissa, Michelle, Kalli, Ashley and Nick headed to the zoo on Saturday and helped out by painting CK the jaguar’s cage and clearing out branches and debris from the trails. They even got to see some crazy animal behavior from the tapirs, spider monkeys, jaguars and crocodiles!


On Sunday, Marissa, Brindley and Scott headed to the Belize Botanical Gardens and volunteered with Joe Canto, one of the gardeners at BBG. They propagated orchids and lilies, did some transplanting and of course, watered. It was a great chance to get up to the gardens, help out and be surrounded by the beautiful Belizean flora!

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