1. This is me and my friend Noku from South Africa (one of the only people that actually showed up, much less dressed up).
2.This is my Costa Rican Friend Kenneth (he lived in Canadia for a year. I help him with his decent English). We were gathering mangostan fruits.
3.This is a picture of Arenal volcano from a trip I took with the fourth year students. It was a a little area with pools and hot springs.
4.This is just beautiful.
5.This is one of the cuter sheep from the group that graze on campus every day. I don't ever see anyone put them out or bring them in, but they are in a little temporary fence, so they are probably not magic. Plus, sometimes I make little clicking noises to them and they come up and let me pet them.
I am on the verge of getting bitter, and that is no good. I had an awesome weekend that I will have to write about in my next blog. However, I am having some difficulties here. My Animal Reproduction and Lactation teacher is kind of insane. He is an older guy retiring in December. I respect that he is set in his ways, but it is more than that. He will randomly go from making weird/ inappropriate jokes to being stern or yelling. He gets things mixed up sometimes and then gets frustrated about and takes it out on the closet person. I mean if he is battling senility, then I feel bad for him, but that is still not alright.
We just had a room check for cleanliness. I normally keep my room clean, but I had to clean the dust off the fan, and get the spiderwebs in the corner. Well, first of all they needed no less than 3 people to check our tiny rooms. Why in the world do you need more than one two people (and i can only see needing two people for legality reasons of it not just being one person looking in peoples rooms) to check a room!? Then, they told me it was good, but it was a little disorganized. Well, it is. But part of that is because I am actively working on things. Also, I keep a lot of stuff out because things tend to become covered in mildew, bugs, etc... quickly (especially in dark or covered places). Having things visible helps me see and try to prevent this. I have opened a sealed granola bar to have ants pour out here. I understand that I am living in dorms, but I really resented someone that needed three people to look at a room telling me I needed to order my room. This stems mainly from the fact that this university is so VERY disorganized. It felt like a hooker telling me I need to take better care of my body. I know a lot of things are either cultural or just obscured by a factor I am missing and thus cannot judge adequately, but that rationality does not stop me from being frustrated.
Two nights ago I had a really great talk with mom and dad in general and about my weekend trip. We talked for well over an hour. It was like 11. I was falling asleep, but it was really nice. Last night I wasted a bunch of time cooking (that ended in failure) and then being trapped by a heavy downpour. I was so excited to talk to them again (which is pretty awesome), but then frustrated that I was not able. I have a Frisbee tournament tonight that will go till like 9:45 so I will have to run hoe to call them before 10, and I have to get up before 5a the next day. Okay, I realize that is just whiny, but that is why I said frustrated, and not sad, desperate, down trodden, unfortunate, etc...
Here is something fun. The school is going to have a 6k (3.6 mile) and a 10k(6 mile) race in two weeks. The 10k race is a race to the front gate and back. I want to participate, but I was not sure if I was up to the 10k. Well, yesterday I ran to the gate and back. It was definitely a work out, but now I know that I still got it. I will most likely write about my race adventure when it comes.
Well, I need to go be productive as it is already 11:30a. Yea buffalo cheese project!
Robbie is constantly on my mind, and she is having a rougher patch right now. So that weighs on me as well. She said mom talked her through a dark place yesterday, so go mom.
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