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As soon as my friend Dr. Hatha told me about his Full bright (MSU)  trip to USA from CUSAT , I was envisioning to spend quality time with him on all ends - professional, recreational and personal - during Thanksgiving week, 2012. The day came and Hatha was with our family. I got the true feeling of friendship when I received him. That's when I actually experienced the following-  Even though friends are apart from each other, when they meet, it will be the same as before. Bharathiar University Days Next day I drove Hatha and my family to Everglades , a sub tropical wetland - an important ecosystem. As we both are Environmental Scientists and nature loving people, we had wonderful time at Everglades. During boat ride to Coot bay from Flamingo center, we were watching Mangroves, beautiful birds and alligators and walking in the Anhinga Trail was excellent. As usual, I stopped at "Robert is Here" and had a tasty mango shake. Evening after visiting a ...

I had the opportunity to teach Environmental Sciences to small kids (bunch of 3rd graders) during this week. I have taught the subject to under and post graduate students. After few years of break, I had this opportunity. Since, lots of news about BP oil Pollution (They were going to pay billions of dollars as fine) was going on, I choose to create a model that explains how oil pollution happens and how it gets cleaned. Marine Oil Pollution and Clean Up: I bought some sand from Home Depot. I used a plastic box, shoe box and filled with the sand sliding from top to bottom. I created blue water using water and blue colored ink. It turned out as a good Ocean model. All the kids were watching with full curiosity. I made an 'Oil Barge' with simple small candle light stand on small ship shaped wooden plank which I got from 'Michaels' store. I used left over cooking oil (which I take to recycling center) and colored it with some black color. That cooking oil now looked lik...