Friends!

This past weekend was a bit more exciting than the previous! I met a few people at the BBQ with the reindeer and hung out with them all day Saturday. We went to the farmer's market and bought some vegetables and someone gave Ben some caribou and so we proceeded with making a huge lunch out of it all. I also bought a Romanesco which is a broccoli-cauliflower hybrid. I steamed it up last night and it was a tasted like broccoli and cauliflower in one bite! Some pictures of it are below:







This past week I met with my advisor to pick a research topic. I am going to work on the "greening" or "browning" of boreal forests with the warming climate. I don't know too much about it yet, but there have been contradictions about it and we are going to try to find out which way things are going. It sounds pretty interesting sofar!!

On a less happy note, just so everyone is aware Lucas and I broke up the other day. It is hard being 5,000 miles apart for so long and having a busy schedule...

Besides that, things are still going well! Classes are good and my schedule is picking up so I have less and less down time! The weather has been nice all week and in the 60's which is great for walking around campus. There is a contra this weekend so I am looking forward to that! Also, there are huuuuge mountains we can see from certian points around campus! Last night it was clear enough so that we could se Denali way off in the distance...I'm not sure exactly how far away, but a good 2-3 hour drive away. Then, there are a few other mountains to the east of Denali that are 12,000-13,000 feet tall. They are covered in snow and stick out in the background! I will take some pictures next time I have my camera with me!

Anyway, enough procrastonating!