Well. This is for anyone that might've had the crazy idea that I'd write before the school year was over. Honest to gosh I forgot about this until about 5 minutes ago. So I won't be offended if you did too.

Basically...spring's here and I'm lovinggg it! The warm weather makes writing a paper better. I'm not quite sure how but it does. And the flora around this place... INCREDIBLE. It truly is. I am in awe on a daily basis. In the spirit of which, I've actually put one of my earlier goals into action. A couple days ago I started a notebook of my... field notes, I guess I would like to call them. That is, my own classification system of the plants and trees around campus, including [horrible] sketches, [ridiculously wordy] descriptions, and [extremely off] measurements. Also part of my regimen is to climb the tree if possible, smell, touch, taste?, haha I don't know. Oh, and to also say "Hello (name of the plant)" every time I walk past it. And in the spirit of simple-mindedness I've decided not to go to the internet for any part of it. I thought about doing a little bit of researching after every plant I added, but then decided it'd be more fun to do it all by first hand experience. After all, I'm behind a computer screen or a book most of my days so this is a much-needed form of learning.

ANYWAY. Enough of that.

Spring soccer is pretty awesome. We practice only a few times a week and it's great to have a lot of the girls back together. The weather has again added in making it all the more pleasurable. I just had a crazy past week, turning in 3 papers, but finished it off with a great weekend. A couple friends and I went to a reggae concert in Philly on Friday, a band I had never heard of who ended up playing mostly Beatles covers during the show. It was actually really cool. Then on Saturday, Iz's mom was in town so a couple kids from Swat and myself went out to this French restaurant to meet her. Very cool lady, and not what I expected for Iz's mom. Although it did hit me on the train to meet Iz and her mom that I hadn't thought much about her having a mom at all in the first place. So that was an interesting realization.

This week I'm finishing up and submitting a video for a contest dad e-mailed me about. Iz and I filmed all of it at her farm house and the video has the potential to be pretty weird/stupid or surprisingly okay. We'll see. And then I also want to try and push some summer plans a little further. We will also see about that one.

Because of my horrible blogging abilities, and because I know you all have been sitting patiently in front of your computers for me to post something... here are a few pictures from our camping trip one of my friends took. I was going to attach some posters I made for the environmental group I'm in but for some reason they don't want to.

Love you , miss you.

ps the blonde who's rock climbing is IZ not ME. I wish..