Tulear

So we left the city of Fort Dauphan and are now in the bigger city of Tulear on the West coast. It is really nice. Today we had a lecture of coral reefs and then in the afternoon went snorkeling on the reef to see what we had learned. It was unreal. Our hotel is very nice, we have been eating well too. Life is still not "american" but there are definitely more comforts of home (running hot water, a sit down toilet, more than beans and rice for dinner...). It is Mango season and our Hotel has tons of mango trees in the courtyard. Every twenty minutes to a half hour we hear a bang of a mango falling on the roof and rolling to the ground. Consequently the ground is covered in ripe, sweet delicious mangos. Life is good, still very busy but good.