No lights to be had up here in the Yellowknife. Though the odds and the timing should all be in my favor, as luck would have it, the weather is not. Clouds have blanketed the sky from the time I landed until tonight, and now there is just enough thinning to pick out small pockets …
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I am a notorious travel sleeper. Put me in a car, plane, train, or covered wagon and I am fast asleep before you can say, “are we there yet?”. This has served me extremely well in the past; sleeping through turbulence resembling a roller coaster, near death experiences while driving with my father, and sibling …
Congratulations! Today is my day. I’m off to Canada I’m off and away! I’m off to Yellowknife, Canada in pursuit of the Aurora Borealis. I have seen it once, but once is not enough for me. I was much to young to fully appreciate the brilliance and motion of the dancing bands of light. …
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Happy Wednesday! We've made it half way through third week. I'd have to say that this week has gone by pretty quickly so far, which is great! We have exactly one week left of the block. Next Wednesday is the last day. I can't believe how quickly this block has gone by! It feels like …
Third week, the last full week of the block is here. It usually goes by the slowest of all the weeks. I have a feeling though that this block third week might not go by as slow as some others, mainly because we still have a fair amount of lab work to finish. It snowed …
Well it's already half way through second week, meaning we have exactly 2 weeks left in the block now! Only 2 weeks till winter break, a long much-needed break from school. I'm really looking forward to it after taking two lab classes in a row. Lab classes really have a way of wearing you out. …
Wow I honestly can't believe it is already the end of the first week of block 4! Time flies when you're having fun in a lab class. But really this week flew by. That always seems to happen the first week after block break though. This block I am taking Bacterial Genetics and Physiology. It is an upper level elective for Biology, and …
Block 3 is spiraling to an end. It's Week 4, and rather than being consumed by a rush of anxiety, I'm oddly calm. Week 4 and calm? What? A lot happened in this block--a lot of reading, a lot of talking, a lot of ceremonies, a lot of thinking, a lot of bizarre inexplainable emotional …
Indigenous Religious Traditions is my second religion course. The first was World Religions, a survey course at my hometown's community college with over fifty students and professor who was not a fan of discussion. The class consisted of static once-a-week three-hour lectures with an occasional video to save the professor's aged voice. There were no …
Well, we're back from Pine Ridge and wow. I'm afraid the only words I have are pointless descriptors like "awesome, dude!" and profanity, and since I posted an intensely personal blog earlier I'll leave most of the synthesis to one of the other bloggers. Also, I promised the buffalo dissection. On Tuesday, we went …
