In short...summer was good...not long enough, but really good. One of the best parts was the end: I came to Maine early and spent a week with Hannah in Orono, and actually spent most of that time up at her camp on Ragged Lake. We just relaxed, explored the lake in the canoe, climbed Big Spencer Mountain, did a lot of crossword puzzles, I saw my first moose...in fact a saw a mama moose and her baby, we played the guitar, made s'mores, went night swimming under the brilliant stars...took the canoe out at night to watch the moon set over the mountain and stargaze...basically it was one of the best weeks of my life. Here are some pics from the trip
The Top pic is a view of the camp from the lake...it was completely isolated, we didn't see another human being until we got back to civilization. The next pic is the moon above Big Spencer Mountain which we climbed to the top of. The rest are just pictures of our excursion and the lake in general...it was a great time!!
After my week with Hannah in central Maine, we headed the two hours Sou
th to Brunswick to begin our sophomore year in college. We moved into our lovely apartment and only spent about two hours trying to figure out the best way to arrange our room, but we really love it. Especially having our own kitchen with a stove, oven and full size fridge, as well as having our own bathroom. Here are some pictures of our living quarters.
The first pic is of our living room as seen from the front door, the next pic is of our medicine cabinet in our bathroom which we were all very excited about, it was one of the first things we organized. The third pic is of the living room from the opposite doorway. Then the bedroom, which was surprisingly huge, and the last pic is of our beautiful kitchen.
We really enjoy our room, and then there are the three girls living downstairs who are our close friends, so essentially there are six of us living together in two rooms. It's a very nice set up. We're already having a lot of fun, the first weekend here (last weekend) we took a trip to the flea market to supplement our living areas with cool things like butter dishes and washboards. We also had a huge tie-dying party which was quite successful and a lot of fun...when we finished, Hannah and I found that we had too much dye left, so we had a bit of a skirmish, leaving us quite colorful!!
So far the year looks like it's going to be really good. In our two rooms combined we're pretty sure we have a total of fourteen instruments that we are all at different levels of proficiency in playing, but it's really fun, let's see if I can remember them all: 3 guitars, 2 ukuleles, 1 bass, 1 mandolin, 1 dulcimer, 1 cajun accordion, 1 clarinet, 1 oboe, 1 violin, 1 keyboard, 1 washboard...and I think that's all of them!!
My classes all look to be pretty good. I'm taking: Plant physiology ( a really cool class with a really good professor, and it's a small science class which is unusual but really nice), Physics (my largest class, but the professor is also really good and makes it engaging), Intro to Electronic Music ( where I'm going to be learning how to use recording equipment and how to manipulate sound and stuff, really cool!) and my last class is Middle Eastern Music ( also with a really good professor and it's a lot of listening to really cool music so that should be good). Right now that's about all that's going on. I'm hoping to join the craft barn and maybe throw some pots which would be fun....I'm still on the search for a job, so if anyone has connections at Bowdoin they should hook me up. The food, of course, is fabulous, the weather is good...life is good...and that's all for now!
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