I was really glad for a lot of things today.
I got to see my dad and Uncle Jimmy earlier at Sunrise and learned more about Pigs Ears, one of the very few native plants that I know the name of and can recognize on sight (if anyone like Sarah or Christa or anyone wanted to know what they looked like still growing, I can help to see if there’s any around; they’re more likely to be in the Village or Western though).
I understood Aztec Math a lot better thanks to Pedro, for telling me what each of the “lines” (like the ones place,tens place, and such) meant if that makes sense? I wrote them down on paper and on my abacus (Sorry Uncle Vicente, I don’t know how to spell it in the Native language!) to help me tomorrow. I can’t wait to use it tomorrow now, since I’ll understand better tomorrow! “Social Injustice in Surfing” Class was interesting, but the notes were all over the place and all we did was class discussions. I think,out of the three questions from the beginning of class, we only finished one answer….? Still a fun class tho! And the book in Academic English was fun to read. I annotated it with the rest of my dorm-mates, mentors, and I popcorn reading. We read a random three subsections throughout the first chapter, though I got behind the others since I was writing notes and underlining in the margins to better process it all. So I still have to stay up to finish that, along with my e-mail/homework for that class. That’s what I get for procrastinating, I suppose.
In-between the two I got a “Frozen Explosion” at the Pitzer Café, which later became a mistake. I’m asking for an ingredients list next time, because sitting in the restroom at Western, thinking I’m gonna puke because of my lactose intolerance, was not a fun part of the day.
We did the cadaver at Western today too, which confused me at first because I thought the schedule meant that we’d be doing the “Anatomy and Animation” lecture with Dr. Regga (Is that how it’s spelled?)(Because spell check insisted it was Dr. Reggae xD) today, which was my favorite lecture in all the three years I’ve been at Pipeline. I hope we do get to have it still, and can keep our phones during that lecture as well, because I either want to video tape or take pictures of that; I’ve only heard it once in my first year and I took awful notes. Thankfully, by the end of the cadaver lab, my stomach didn’t feel queasy like it had beforehand.
Back at Pitzer after, it was dark but still too light for stars, and I hung out with some of my new friends at Pipeline (not all, I’ve made a lot this year; I’m proud of myself) on the hammock. All of us figured put how to lay down on the hammock at once, though it took some creative thinking and using other peoples’ lower legs for pillows (Sorry Johnathon) to do it. But it was nice! Then we helped out Uncle Vicente with sanding stuff down– I forget what they were called, but it’s the corn-kernel like pieces of the abacuses… abacusi?– and then I helped MacKayla with her Academic English homework by correcting her grammar. English Teacher experience! But yeah, it’s the “Little Old Lady” piece. You should all check it out, she worked hard on it!
I’d add a nice picture on here too, but all I can manage are purposefully-ugly selfies right now and I already did that, soooooooo, c’est la vee.
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