A lot has happened since I last updated this thing for real. Last week's blog was just some contemplative thoughts. I went over the mainland again last weekend to take in some CBC basketball and chat it up with my old roomies, Serena and other CBC friends. I had a great time. The basketball games were pretty fun to watch, I ended up getting 2nd in bump too. We mostly just hung out and talked and played some Skip-bo and that's about it. It was fun and relaxing. Oh yeah, that was on Saturday and Sunday. On Friday I had a mini field trip boat cruise with my biological oceanography class. There only ended up being 3 people that day as you could pick any day to go from Mon. to Sat. Well anyways I was the chief scientist because no one else wanted to so I directed my crew, told the captain when to lower the Niskan bottles and what order we were going to test things in. It was all really fun. Hopefully I will be posting some of those pictures on here. We had a great warm sunny day which made it even better.
This is the zooplankton net where we catch krill and other very small marine organisms.
Above are the Niskan bottles that we drop down at certain depths to capture water from those depths to measure the nitrogen, chlorophyll, phosphate, etc.
My TA's looking at the CTD instrument.This last week has been a bit stressful though just because I am in class until 5:30 everyday and when I get home I just don't feel like doing any work. I had 2 midterms and a small paper due so I was really busy. Two weeks from now is packed with due dates of assignments and midterms so if you want to keep me in prayer that would be super helpful.
This weekend was awesome. Leia came on the ferry on Friday for my birthday!! We went down to the ocean and turned over rocks and I wowed her with my knowledge of intertidal sea creatures. It was fun and we got some really good pictures. You should see Leia's though, she was doing most of the photography while I did the brunt work of turning over the rocks and picking up the crabs. I love the ocean! We went out to the Macaroni Grill (kind of like Olive Garden) for supper with my friend Jess. Then we went to the movie "27 Dresses" which was really good and funny. After that we had some ice cream cake decorated with a football. Today Leia and I slept in, well not really for me, although 8 is pretty late, haha. Then we made crepes with stawberry filling and whip cream. So good. We went to Walmart, up Mount Doug and played lots of games. So it was a great birthday weekend!
Pretty much all of my weekends in Feb. are booked up which excites me. This next weekend my roommates and I are going to the Chocolate Buffet at the Empress for mine and Sarah's joint birthday. The next weekend CBC is here for some bball games and then my grandma and Rissy come during my reading break. Then the weekend after that my mom and dad are coming up for a visit. This semester is going well and I am keeping busy. I am planning on coming home for Easter which is pumping me up just thinking about it.
Well that's about all that's new with me. I am going to spend my Sat. night tonight catching up on my homework since I am planning on watching the Super Bowl tomorrow. I am really rooting for the Patriots to win. They deserve it. I think that it will be a good game as the Giants do have a shot at winning. It might just be me, Jess, and the popcorn bowl, but that's fine with me. Hope you can all watch it as it might be a historical game with the Patriots going undefeated for the whole season. Go Pats!
Later days,
Candice
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