Boo Ya Asparagus

Adventures all over the place this week. Monday Sofia and I biked to the beach and talked about a whole heap of stuff, America, Hurricane Katrina, France, their president and nucs., and Africa. I feel like I don't know what has been going on in the world until now when I can step outside the selfish U.S. bubble and see.
Anyway, Tuesday was pretty uneventful until it POURED down rain, Rene, Jasmin and I decided to play frisbee in the rain and we just got soaked!!! It was awesome, really reminded me of Western. Speaking of WWU, I hear school is about to start and people are moving back in, I really do miss being an RA, but I definently enjoy having more time to myself and being able to pursue the my dreams. I miss the people so much though, stopping in my room, yelling my name, those random conversations on rounds, having interesting dinner conversations, and not to mention random FRISBEE!! In Leisure Leadership and programming we were talking about approaching a challenging situation, and she asked for some examples, I couldn't think of just one to say and no one else was saying anything. After class on Tuesday I also went to this drumming, uhh circle I guess you could call it, we did a bunch of clapping and then I got to play the sambarine, (I dont know if that is right). It was a blast, it really made me think and it was challenging.
Wednesday I had early morning class then got a sim card for my cell phone that Fraser let me borrow, I also called my parents cuz it was their anniversary, but they celebrated it early so my dad could go hunting. I was telling my friends here about hunting and first of all, they couldn't believe my dad has a plane, then they couldn't believe he has a gun. Whatever.
Thursday I worked on projects and finished a whole paper not due till next Wed I was so proud of myself! Friday was great, laid out in the sun, went to the library, told stories about hells hole, canoeing the Gulkana, and some rafting adventures. Most people are pretty keen on visiting me in AK, bring it on!
Friday night I went climbing with Kim, Fraser, Dave, and a couple other people I can't remember their names, but they were cool, Kim and I raced up this wall and she beat me by a second! I was so tired afterwards and we went out for Indian food, I have never had this before, it was super good!!! I didn’t like their yogurt, it tasted like it was rotten, but their sweet rice was amazing.
Saturday I met my ride for training at Fairbridge at 10 am at Stirling train station, let me tell you this was the biggest nerve racking hassle ever!!! Plus I was really sore from climbing, But I finally met Chris and we drove to Fairbridge, the camp I am doing Practical work for and had to go for a training weekend. I met some awesome people and the training was like 1/10 of what I had for RA training so it was really easy. There were two girls that I just got along with great, Di and Amanda, they are so sweet, a bunch of us went for a walk around Fairbride at night just to check it out and Amanda and I got separated from the group and we ended up sitting outside this beautiful church talking about religion. Sooo awesome. Anyway, I didn't get the memo to bring bedding for the weekend, and it was freakin freezing!!! Luckily there was extra blankets so I had like 4 over me and 1 under me and I was toasty warm, I didn't even want to get up on Sunday, and when I got home I took a 2 hour nap.
Then received a text message from Kim asking if I wanted to go camping this weekend, of course I said yes, ok check this out:
Mon-Fri - school, chill, assignments
Friday night-Sun morn - camping
Sun afternoon-Friday afternoon- volunteering for Prac at Fairbridge
Friday afternoon-Sunday afternoon - bike ride for adven. rec. management on Mundi biddi trail.
Yeah its full on!!!! I am excited though. I can't believe I am already in week 8!! It is weird having to think of food that is going to go bad in those 10 days or library books that need to be returned. Speaking of that, I am reading this book called, Kijana by Jesse Martin who sailed around the world, but the book is about another sailing trip he took with friends over 3 years. It is really good so far. I am also reading a book about Sea Kayaking for a future trip from Alaska to South America. Well, my friends, until next time, boo ya Asparagus.