Aloha from Hawai`i,
This is Teri Dannenberg, Teacher Argonaut. Today was our first day of production and it is incredible. I was assigned to the lava field with Dr. Steve Mattox. I worked with himduring the first broadcaast and it was such an exciting experience. We walked out to the site in total darkness with only the light of a headlamp. I was very aprehensive about this until I got there and out on the lava. By the end of the day, it was like walking across my front yard (just a lot hotter and crunchier).
I am so thrilled to finally get to write to you from hawai`i. There are so many of you out there that I have exchanged mail with.
STUDENT ARGONAUTS!!!! These guys are the greatest. They have bonded and formed a team that has made our jobs so easy. Everyone has found friends and easily fit in. They hit the ground running this morning and you would have thought that they had been doing this for months, not minutes. Even though this is the second week of production and all the bugs are supposed to have been worked out, there have been a lot of changes and they took it all in stride.
This is the most international group so far, with Kelly from Ontario, Kimberely from Bermuda, and Jeremy and Jenny from the U. K. Plus two of the teachers, Richard from the U. K. and Owen from Bermuda, Add to our International flavor. We're all learning new phrases and words from each other. We learned about "queing for the Loo" from Jeremy and some new pronunciations from Kelly. Of course, you would think that I was talking in a foreign language, too (Texan?). They learned that when you "tump" your glass you spill it.
Tonight we go on a spider hunt with Rosie Gillespie.
Bye for now. There are Argonauts that need to write a journal entry.
Teri Dannenberg
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