Another week gone so fast!

Mmk, so week two of classes is over and I'm definitely starting to feel it, not actually because of classwork, but because i've just been stretched a leeetle thin. 

This week I started my job, at 5:30 in the morning. That's right, I was so excited to not have to be washing dishes, but here I am waking up at 5:30 to count snails! It was ok, I'm still trying to recover though. So we met both Tuesday and Wednesday at six in the morning and drove out to the "coast", or inlet. But there was salty water and it was tidal and that's what counted. The weather was absoultely perfect though, I wish I had brought my camera, the sun was just rising over the water, none of the fishermen were out yet so all their boats bobbed gently on the water. The first morning a GBH (great blue heron) was striding through the water looking for breakfast, it was breathtaking. Anyways, we spent those first two mornings just figuring out what exactly we need to be doing and how we're gonna go about it. First we had to find the snails that we were looking for, they're called Crepidula Fornica and they're pretty cool critters.This is what they look like. Th senior I'm assisting is interested in them because of the fact that the first one secured to a rock or solid surface (sometimes a hermit crab) is a female, the second one is male, and if there are more, the one on top is always male and the ones in between are both...so cool!! So that was good, even if I didn't get enough sleep.

This week has gone by so fast, I'm having a hard time remembering what we did. This week the East side of our did some bonding, last Friday afternoon we scrounged all the cardboard boxes we could out of two trash rooms and built a cardboard fort in the boys room. it was utterly amazing and lasted for two whole days before gravity just brought it down (Everybody who passed the room was astounded by our masterpiece). We helped to finish the job and then blasted "Time to Say Goodbye" through the dorm as we carried the remnants down to the trash room. The first pic is of the finished box fort (sorry it's small). The second is of Tom and me doing a victory high five, we had just successfully acquired a bunch more building materials from Hyde Hall. Then there's the one of me peeking out of the entrance and the last is of our procession with the pieces, it was quite dramatic. 

Sunday night Danny, (the boy in red above) made dinner for our whole floor in Mac house. We went to help and cut veggies. He made an amazing chocolate cake and Texas Macaroni, I am so glad that I ended up on a floor with him. Today is Jen's birthday and he baked her fabulous chocolate cookies that I can't stop eating. 

Today I went on my first Environmental Studies field trip which was fun, but also way too early in the morning for a Saturday. We drove out to Merrymeeting Bay and broke up into groups and did tests. I was in an insect group and we spent a few hours trying to catch and then count insects, it was very arduous. 

Tonight is the 80s party at Quinby House, my roommates and I have opted out of going, but we're making up for it by doing our reading and listening to 80s music, and we've definitely gotten into the party spirit, we're going to head to Supersnacks later and have a wonderful Saturday night, and then get a good amount of sleep. 

Tomorrow I hope to be going to a Diabetes walk in Portland because tomorrow is also the Race for the Cure in my Portland and i'm really sad that I'm not able to do it with the same people i've been going with for the past few years. This will hopefully be a lot of fun

That's about all for now, not much has really been happening. 

p.s. if you feel any inclination to writing snail mail, I would be an ecstatic recipient. My mail address is: 

Rebecca Perez

765 Smith Union

Brunswick, ME 04011-8407