Another Math Exam

Grr, another one is here. Why is it always math. I feel like I've had 2 exams for this already and its only the midterm...Oh wait that's because I have! What kind of math class is this?
Wish me luck...Who would have thought in Grad school my biggest problem would be primary math - you just have to laugh at yourself sometimes, and hit the books.
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C is for crock of...

Cookie Monster
Posted by: sarahdownes.

The cookie monster is obese? Okay we get the point: eat your fruits and vegetables but come on! Does cookie monster really have to go extreme? I mean couldn’t Sesame Street have just played Cookie monster a little less, or introduced a new character? “A cookie is a sometimes food” That doesn’t even have a good ring to it. You’re messing with my childhood memories here people!
Since when is it TV’s job to teach our children about how to be healthy. Man, parents are becoming so lazy. Poor Cookie Monster, I hope they let you eat big cookies with lots of chocolate, but only sometimes!

Sunny side up, over hard or Benedict?

So Pope Benedict eh? Another traditional conservative on issues that I find important; sexuality, women’s rights/roles, and homosexuals. At 78 maybe the point of voting him Pope is to ease the transition of Catholicism into the 21st century as painlessly as possible for the diehards; but most likely that’s just wishful thinking on my part.
I mean the one religion with the most power and influence on people, with the largest amount of followers, the ones who can make some serious change in this world and they don’t have the guts to own up, take notice of the times that are at hand. I mean one small word can change so many lives, save so many lives, and educate people on how to survive…..condoms.
Don’t get me wrong, Catholicism has made a lot of good changes in the recent past, I mean they are even recognizing that there are different religions out there and not everyone follows the words of the bible. But you would think with a population of one billion followers they would try to help solve some of the world’s problems instead of ignoring them. But maybe its just me.

Very quick, but funny.

Today at 6:30 am the report on the radio was..."There is a snake loose just outside downtown this morning on the beach. Be aware, a snake loose on the beach, its a cute one but its there." This is about 6 blocks from my apartment.

No joke...This is truly being announced on the radio. All they’ve confirmed is that its not a brown snake and that its about 1 meter in length. I will not be walking on the beach this morning that’s for sure!

ha ha, where do I live?

Ibis

Ibis
Originally uploaded by Sala.

Okay so on my run today I found the coolest little park. There is a nice path that goes all around these different ponds and all over the place there are DUCKS, swans, peacocks and Ibis (the white bird in the picture). You could imagine that I was freaking out loving it. I could barley keep my feet moving in the right direction. It was so cool. Right in the middle of the city this great hidden place, I was loving it. Ill be hitting it up everyday im sure.

"Nothing improves creativity like a lack of supervision."

Math Wiz

85% Baby!

I got my math test back…. Yep I’m a super star. For a girl who is bad at math im pretty proud of myself.

School is just sooo busy with projects right now, I cant wait to just get into the classroom for a month and not have to worry about projects and whatever.

I have a meeting next week to talk to the man in charge, to see if I can go to New Zealand for my final internship. I’m excited about that opportunity.

Okay well back at it, I’ve got a 1200 word paper to write for math and another project due later in the week. Another fun weekend is ahead for me!

Today's Quote

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. "

Whit Sunday Islands

Whit Sunday Islands
Originally uploaded by Sala.

Back from our trip, and I think everyone was happy to be back in their own beds.

We started our week getting off the plane to weather that was back in the summer temperatures. It’s been getting cooler in Surfers so we were all happy about that change. Our flight was only an hour and a half and we were there. We got into the taxi on our way to town and saw our first Kangaroo. Unfortunately it was dead on the side of the road; they're just like deer back home. At dusk and dawn they come out to the road to eat and they get smacked by trucks or cars. A sad sighting to say the least but the cabbie got a good laugh out of us.

When we got to our palace it was a little more rustic than some people were use to, I mean the bathrooms weren’t even in our rooms! It was a good little hostel but even I was happy to get out of that room the next day. We had a day about town checking out the sights before our boat trip, so four of us booked another boat trip out to the reef for some diving and snorkeling.

It was a great day and I was beside myself with excitement about being on the Great Barrier Reef. However with all the tourism there wasn’t too much to see. The dive was good, although our whole group seemed to want Brooke and I as their partners and we were crowed together on the whole dive. However I had a good time checking everything out and the Batfish are amazingly huge and friendly. We snorkeled for the rest of the afternoon and had a blast with Julia and Lisa screaming at every fish they came across, but they loved it and Brooke and I got them hooked on underwater life. Julia is convinced that she is going to become a professional snorkeler!

The next day we found Captain Ron and he showed us to our boat that we would call home for the next few days. New Horizon, it was a good sailboat, nothing fancy and our room was in the stern of the boat just under the Captains chair. I wasn’t thrilled about the stairs going up and down form our room but I actually got good at them, even when the boat was rocking.

So we set sail, had dinner, hung out and crashed. Most of the girls were feeling pretty sick the next day as the swells were big and the boat was rocking a lot. Nothing scary, just a whole lot of rocking back and forth. I was strong though and kept everyone in check! We got to our morning spot and got shuttled into shore on the dingy. We hiked up to the lookout and saw the most beautiful spot. White haven beach. Its voted one of the top five beaches in the world, and oh my god I can see why. Because it’s in a Marine park protected for the reef, there is no tourism on the beach, or the whole island for that matter. It was white, white, white sand, soft as baby powder as far as you could see. I’ve never felt anything like it before. The sand is so soft it can clean your silver jewelry. Our boat hands even told me that this sand is the sand used in the lense of the tubule telescope. Amazing. However there is a chance of stingers in the area. Tiny Jellyfish that can really harm you, so we all had to wear these great black wet suits any time we went in the water. It was quite the look. After a bit of chillin on the beach and swimming in the sandy bottom ocean it was time to head back to the boat.
The Captain decided rather than have everyone throw up on the boat and go back to the swells, we went to the bay where we will spend the night and got off the boat. We headed for the scuba spot and got suited up. There was only Brooke myself and Giean who were certified divers so guess what…we got to go alone. Yep we jumped in the water and dove by ourselves. I mean we couldn’t really get lost but I was still a bit nervous. This reef was amazing; it was alive with fish of all kinds. I was partial to the parrotfish that were the size of dogs. And the huge bat fish that followed us around. 37 minuets later we popped up and found out that we were nowhere near the beach. We had to call captain over to pick us up in the dingy. We passed over our equipment and headed to the beach snorkeling our way over. We spent the night in this bay and had sunset on the beach with drinks. It was a nice break from the boat.

The next morning we took off for one more bay and some more scuba. This was another great part of the reef and it had tons of caves to check out. The visibility under water wasn’t perfect but we had a batfish be-friend us and he followed us our whole dive. Again we got to go alone and check out everything. Then it was back to main land and a bit of shopping. The funny thing was we all had land sickness. When the land feels like it’s moving like a boat. A strange and unpleasant feeling but it went away after a good nights rest.
A couple of drinks at the bar with everyone from our boat, a mechanical bull ride later and I was crashing and out like a light.
So a bit of sun, tan, and burn later I’m back at it with major projects due this week. Man, am I ever glad I went to see all that though.
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