jodywy
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U of Wyoming has a long winter break. My son figured he take an international study class and went back right before New Year's and get out of helping dad feed livestock. It is an environmental engineering class for 2 weeks in Costa Rica. He served his LDS mission there for two years, so the only one older in the group is the Professor. There are ten students, 3 men all Chemical engineers, and 7 Women all environmental engineers, the campus there is under the University of Atlanta Georgia.
My Son had a good discussion and finally got the livestock manager to admit, that sick cow needed to be doctored on their Organic dairy. They all got to milk a cow by hand; the dairy is for the milk on campus. The bio digester fit in well with the chemical engineers as they work with systems like that. The 3 of them scratched their head thought when they were told how the whole campus was sustainable; they thought some of the numbers used were pretty fuzzy, Girls didn't see that problem.
Well a couple students thought they knew Spanish, well not Costa Rican Spanish. So My Son has been the interpreter when they are off Campus. He had to explain to the police that they were tourist when there bus got pulled over for old tourism plates. Think everybody glad he came along, being a couple years older, lived in country, knows culture and language.
He gets 2 hours college credit for this 2 week course; He has to write 8 to 10 page paper at the end of a trip. Now a paper like that is much harder for an engineer then a English major.
My Son had a good discussion and finally got the livestock manager to admit, that sick cow needed to be doctored on their Organic dairy. They all got to milk a cow by hand; the dairy is for the milk on campus. The bio digester fit in well with the chemical engineers as they work with systems like that. The 3 of them scratched their head thought when they were told how the whole campus was sustainable; they thought some of the numbers used were pretty fuzzy, Girls didn't see that problem.
Well a couple students thought they knew Spanish, well not Costa Rican Spanish. So My Son has been the interpreter when they are off Campus. He had to explain to the police that they were tourist when there bus got pulled over for old tourism plates. Think everybody glad he came along, being a couple years older, lived in country, knows culture and language.
He gets 2 hours college credit for this 2 week course; He has to write 8 to 10 page paper at the end of a trip. Now a paper like that is much harder for an engineer then a English major.