The last few weeks...

Sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while. It's a combination of that I really haven't done too much worth writing about lately and that I've been really busy with school and stuff.

Out of the past two weekends I've had one completely free (way to boring for me since I have a four day weekend every week) and the other where I spent one afternoon wandering through some old and quite boring Quito museums with the kids from Kalamazoo and one day on my final Volcanology field trip. That was pretty cool as it was the only volcano we visited that has a big and beautiful snow cap, but we didn't get to hike up it and most of the times it was covered in clouds. Frankly, I'm not sad that I don't have any more required field trips for that class, they were fun but often more trouble than they were worth. Now I will have much more free time to do some independent traveling which I much prefer.

This coming weekend I am going with my fellow bio boys to the Ecuadorian coast. Its a four day trip that leaves on Thursday bright and early. That means 1) I don't have to go to any of my classes on Thursday, and 2) I will instead spend my day in our old ghetto car without a clock or a radio because it will be about an 11 hour drive. I do really hope the 2 days of traveling will be worth it though because it will be my first time seeing the Pacific Ocean and only my second time out of the Andes since I've been here. I'm really excited for this trip as my host mom told me that her past students have loved it. Crossing my fingers, knocking on wood, doing whatever I can do really that we have good weather and it doesn't rain all the time. Well, actually I'm getting used to the rain here as we have finally hit "winter", aka the rainy season. It rains almost every day, but if I'm lucky the mornings are still beautiful and the clouds don't roll in from the coast until mid-afternoon.

Ok, I promise that I will have more stories after this weekend but right now I have to get some school work done. I'm still having health problems now as it turns out that my small amount of anemia may not actually be my problem. I went this afternoon to a Neurologist to get his opinions and now I have to spend all day tomorrow (that I was going to spend working) at various clinics getting tests run. I'm sure that it will be a blast. I just hope that the final outcome will be one that allows me to discover my problem, seriously.