We did a little get to know you and I found out a few things WHAT I LEARNED Emily loves butterflies and hummingbirds and anything cute But she's super into spiders too Ew Danny is the smartest of all of us He has more education stickers than anyone Jennifer and Janey Chen are sisters They sort of remind me of me and Hector because Jennifer the older sister is pretty much perfect in every way And her little sister is
Haha I only wrote that because Hector was just looking over my shoulder But really I think Science Squad is going to be a good thing for me The truth is it was really hard for me when we first moved here I spoke differently than everyone and kids at school seemed to have all the friends they wanted already At lunch they sat in such tight little circles I couldn't have wedged my body between their shoulders if I wanted to Some kids made fun of my Spanish accent the rest mostly ignored me Maybe with the Science Squad it will be different But anyway the objective that's the word
Danny used of our meeting was to figure out what we were going to focus on for our summer project Emily read a list of options We could help monitor air pollution collect and index fungi track the spread of invasive plants Nothing really jumped out at me until she said something about leatherback sea turtles We would see sea turtles all the time back home in Puerto Rico but I didn't know they were in North Carolina too Sea turtles What about sea turtles I couldn't help myself I don't usually speak up like that especially around people I don't know But
that's the project I wanted to do It reminded me of home Puerto Rico Emily smiled Well it looks like there are a couple things we could do with sea turtles mostly having to do with observing them or tracking them She trailed off while she continued to read to herself Guys I like this idea What if we did our project on sea turtles Everyone murmured their agreement So we're doing our project on sea turtles We still have to find a mentor for our club someone who knows a lot about sea turtles or marine life and can help guide us The old mentor Mr O Leary was a geologist He told us to start looking for someone
