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Lright so i realise I have been home for about a month but I also left you all hanging... why you ask... because I killed my computer with water ... MY BAD!!!!!!!!!! point being I'm going to tell you about some thing I think i haven't told you yet here goes.........(p.s. forgive me if I repeat things)

We went on our last camping trip and I loved every minute of it and spent most of it with Wiley doing this and that sleeping under the stars ya know cute romantic stuff that I love (giggle). on that trip we did a lot of snorkling and I LOVED IT!!!! we released babby sea turtles and swam with full grown ones(aka big they are always growing) that was sooo soooooo fun then Wiley and I got to watch some of the baby sea turtles we release go out into the ocean under water WAY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! accept for the part where the jelly fish decided I would be a good target....
trip injures and health thingys
stepped on a nail
sliced foot open with a clam
got food poisoning
was allergic to the antibiotics given to me for the food poisoning
stung by a jelly fish.....
stung by a bee (if you don't know i am allergic to bees)
that is all i can remember right now

I presented my Ulva project and was SOOO SOOO scared for the whole thing but I got an A on it yAYYY! blood sweat and tears went into that scientific paper and project GEEZ was it hard but so so worth it!

I wish I could say I hate Ulva but i don't right now I would love to work with it because WOW do I know a lot and I like knowing a lot YAYY! anyways point being I loved it

I loved every minute of it from day one til when I had to say goodbye to everyone, everyone accept Wiley....

we stayed in La Paz for an extra week and had a ton of fun walking around La Paz and trying to minimalize culture shock aka from a tiny town to a bigger one to AMERICA!!!! freaking crazy!!!

but yeah so to answer everyones question "What was your favorite part?"
Me: "well meeting Wiley, my boyfriend of course. But after that it was ridding on the back of a sea turtle!!!!!"

trip o day AWESOME!

Alrighty so we went to Cabo Pulmo and a few other places on the way.

point being ti was the most amazing five days of my life i LOVED IT!!!!

so we got to release baby turtles FIVE TIMES!!!!!

Me and three other people got to dig up hatched nests... the nest that Andrew and I dug up wasn't done hatching and it was SOOOO cool cause we were digging up baby turtles!!!!! one was still half in it's egg and it was so so sweet to watch it emerge!!!!

we saw Hump back whale it was WICKED COOL!!!!!!!!!!! we weren't expecting to see them all semester so we are pretty lucky!

We did a lot of snorkling but my mask died and my snorkel was killing my cancor sore.... Wiley was really sweet and switched with me even though he had to put up with my mask leaking.... THANK YOU!!! we saw SOO many cool fish and coral and got to swim with sea lions!!!

when we were camping Wiley and i decided that we wanted to go out and swim and see if we could swim with the sea turtles ... the grown up ones!... and we went out and first saw the interns with a squid then a turtle came and took the squid away.... me and Wiley stayed out a while longer and fish started swiming around us and then turtles too... they came right up to our faces like 6 inches from us looking at us like into our eyes not just at us it was SOOOOO cool there had to have been seven of them just cirling us......

after that we went overto watch them let the baby turtles go and i got stung by a jelly fish.... is scared the living day lights out of me....


that is all for now I have to go call people .... that thanksgiving thing.....

up to date

Alright so we got back(in to particular order because I don't remember) and we have had papers and presentations thrown at us groups individual you name it was got it!

we have been doing a debate on the cannery and surprise surprise I am super into it with all of my Years of YIG I have been the note taker and wow did I type a lot

we went camping in Loreto which was Ubber fun and i have some pictures!

I have been measuring Ulva to the point of crazyness!

Peggy Dan and I sat down and went to town on our project we finished and have now presented YAYY MANGROVES

I wrote a paper on my environmental ethic....

we had our white trash party beer bash last weekend and it was AWESOME! so much fun

we have so much work during the week that it is like time to relax... I mean school is from monday to saturday and we have so much work to do inbetween that there is never a time when you aren't stressed, working or worrying about the work you should be doing.

We played Sardines the other day which was freaking awesome! we sat in a little boat and fit like 15 people in it it was awesome

So we usually have a half hour to an hour off after lunch till our next class and it's always akward and no one really knows what to do with the time cause it's not enough to go anywhere.... sooo I colored Wiley's hair!!! it was awesome!!!

We had our halloween party! it was interesting and very last minute but still very fun!

We went on a field trip we were going to go over this mountain bu 10 minutes in the mosquitoes tried to kill us so we had to turn back :'(

we went to a primary school and taught them about recycling.... which was interesting because the night befor our recycling center was burnt down....:-(

we went to paint a wall of our recycling canter that burnt down....and I stepped on a nail it went through my shoe... not fun

we went to a fresh water oasis the other day it was cold.. there were TONS of bees/wasps we also go to go inside these people house it was awesome!!! they were super nice!

me hugging a palm tree

humming bird at the house we visited

Me and Wiley by the fresh water

way awesome spider at the house

when the mosquitoes tried to eat us.... I had so much bug spray on that the bag came of on my leg! yayy chemicals

painting at the recycling canter

teaching at the primary school

Wiley and I at the White trash beer bash party

it just looked so cool

decorations in Loreto

pretty store sign

some street

Wiley and I in Loreto

I'm talented...

free time after lunch...

it's so perdy! ballon ... heart

heart star!

relaxing!

Wiley and I in a hammock

Halloween

break!!!

Alright so i went to Todo Santos and it was AMAZING!!! amazing! nothing could have gone better!
we got on a bus to La paz and then my group of seven (travis, Kelsey, Caitlin, Blair, Keegan, Rachel, and myself) got in our two cars and drove to Todos! we went straight to the beach where we set up camp and went swimming and surfing immediatly!I don't remember what we did for each meal but we went out a lot to the local places that were REALLY good! Napped on the beach often and played in the sand! I took a lot of pictures of people surfing and dogs playing in the water!!

One day we went out on the town and walked around finding all the cute little shops and buying christmas presents tehee! we saw Hotel California which was not as exciting as the song but thats really okay!

another day we went to find this fresh water beach and all we knew was the m ile marker so we kinda went off raoding even though it was a road but WOW it was beautiful ocean 30second water small fresh water stream coming from a small pond SO CLEAR and nice cause we hadn't showered and we were so full of salt! when I was napping on the beach there I sat up to look around and had to do a double take because there were horses on the beach!!! four of them they were beautiful! i played with them and kissed and hugged them! on of them bite me.... I tried to get on one and it turned to kick me so i dove into the stream.... tehee oops

almost every night we had a bon fire! we had parties on the beach and met some amazing people. from all over! New Zealand, Australia, Oregon, Cali, and Todos. There was this kid on the beach that we rented our surf boards from he helped us with everything from surfing to finding our keys when we lost them

one night we decided it would be a good idea to scale a wall and check out this castle that was still being built... and wow was it amazing on the inside! there were no railings so we had to be careful not to fall off the stairs or down the big hole in the middle of the ballroom. we made it all the way to the top in the tower and it was beautiful and amazing.... until we saw a light in the downstairs.... we fled like there is no tomorrow out of that place!!!

One of the nights we went out to a club/bar and danced to live music met a ton of fun locals and visitors there it was amazingly fun

I can't remember anything else I mean it was five days of doing what we want when we want from eating breakfast at the restaurant on the beach to swimming at 2am!

now for some break pictures!

Bar on the beach

The castle at night!!(yeah we made it up into the tower!)

at sunset

the view outside my tent door

^Travis Surfing^

Beautiful horses that found us on the beach

Of course they looked like they were in need of kisses




Bike race through town









The walk to the fresh water!







Wiley, and one of the roses he got me





The roses in a beautiful Vase!












A rock that Wiley got me.... ready ready look at it HEART now turn your head 90degress to the right.... It's a D for DisCo... OH YEAH!

Das klub and a little bit morepre break!

Alright to this saturday was the day we have all been waiting for, we party mostly every weekend and have a themed dance party things like 90's where we listened to backstreet boys, spice girls and other things we heard growing up... but this weekend we had DAS KLUB!!!!

it started with a costume contest(by cabana), and moved on to a party on the beach fallowed by the long awaited DANCE PARTY!!!! Das Klub was described to us as euro trash so my Cabana decided we would do just that dress as trash and we creatively wore trash bags! The theme song for the night was called "Sex, drugs, & house" because it's very Das Klubish song. So our Cabana wore bands that said SEX DRUGS & HOUSE... I was house. our Cabana won the "trashtastic" award because we took it so literal. (we had More dress up with us because her cabana chose not to partake in dressing up, they did other important things like music and photos)

the costume contest was judged by out Student Affairs managers and out Interns who also got into it and dressed in all black. IT was awesome!!

while we were out on the beach partying and playing what they call Beirut? i don't really know how to spell it but about five Mexicans showed up and partied with us then five more and more and more and they kept showing up. it became ummm well they were in the girls' personal bubbles and we had to have our guys save us and we eventually just went back in the school to avoid them.... but thats not so bad because we proceeded to have the DANCE PARTY!!!!!!!!

okay so warning the pictures are Das klub, party, themed party, so they are weird! i have a few other pictures befor the das klub pictures tho

My new dress that my host mommy made!

Out for the evening!

awesome little kid and a puppy!

The judges for das klub

My classmates!!

My cabana (+more)
SERIOUS FACES

Some mexican who decided to try and dress up??

Me and Wiley... no we're not supposed to match

death march pics

Wiley doing the death march

my funky sun burn

dead puffer

LIVE TURTLE!!!!

Superman?

dead sealion

Dead sea lion

REALLY cool sand it's all going one way because of the hurricane