8/23

We went into the hives with Agape for the first time. She gave us a quick intro on how to inspect the hives so that we would know what to do tomorrow when we show the hives to the bee club kids. However, we were only able to go through 3 hives with Agape until she had go back to nursing the baby. So Emma and I decided to try inspecting the hives by ourselves. We inpected 2 and found one of the hives filled with lots of honeycombs and a big and healthy broodnest. It looked like they were ready to swarm so we decided to space the broodnest with empty top bars.

8/22

We finally finished making our hives. To complete them, we cut sheets of tin and nailed them onto the roof frames. We also rendered wax but it turned into an ugly brownish color since Kofi threw blue and red crayons into the rendered hot liquid.

8/21

Today, we woke up really early to drive all the way to Kingston to go Cornation market. There were lots of higglers selling various vegtables and fruits in large bulks. I learned from Agape that higglers stationed inside of the building  are permanent higglers  who live in Kingston and those stationed outside are temporary higglers who come to sell their goods only from time to time. Thus higglers outside tend to sell their goods at a cheaper price than the permanent higglers. While Emma and I were strolling around the market place, people kept calling us by different names like "ching-ching", "chiney", "miss korea", "tokyo japan", etc. In the afternoon, the boys took us on another walk to Marcum point.