Observations

Observations:

[] sunsets behind mountains are different than in the plains. There’s no twilight. It’s like a light switch. There’s no slow fade through an orange glow to warn you of the coming night.

[] I want to do a photo essay on the dogs of Chiang Mai. I don’t know if all cities in Thailand or other areas in the world for that matter are always like this, but the street dogs of Chiang Mai just fascinate me.

[] the K’ College students turned in our ‘initial interests application’ for our January term internships today. I put working at a local national park mapping and labeling trials as my number one choice. I can’t really explain it. But atleast for today it feels right.

[] it’s astonishing to me that there is any need for more than one biology text book in the world. Since I’ve started with upper level science classes in high school with AP E.S. and AP Bio and blah blah more ecology and environmental science. blah blah. college science classes. I remember commenting on how they are all the same. From high school to college one was actually the exact same. and they all have the same basic ecology chapter, frequently the same chapter number even. And lo and behold, yesterday we were handed a Xerox copy of and ecology introduction chapter to you know get our brains think about nature and all. and yes, you guessed it. The same. Even the same pictures. Or atleast similar, graphs analogies everything. it’s just great that we have mastered standardized information so well.

[]today our crossfit excercises were very functional. The first one, a jog/walk, required us to be in groups of three and to be at all times carrying one “injured” group member on our 3 laps of the tennis courts. The second portion was again in groups of three and team effort to do as many canoe lifts over our heads as we could in a set time. Awesome!

[] lastly, I wish there was a button for editing the sarcastic tone of writing. Hopefully most of you caught most of the snark.

Well the soothing onslaught of torrential rain ought to lull me right to sleep now. Nighty-night.