Well we still don’t have internet today, so I’ve just been typing my blog entries in a word document and I’ll put them up on my blog as soon as possible! But obviously if you’re reading this I have internet… so yeah, hopefully that’s soon. This morning started with breakfast (duh.), which is my new favorite “meal”. I’ve discovered the one thing I can actually eat that isn’t totally awful… peach yogurt with oatmeal in it. Probably the greatest thing I’ve ever come up with. (I introduced it to Dana at lunch). We then proceeded to an extremely uh, ‘entertaining’ Chemistry and Geology lesson. I’ll be honest I was curled up on the couch half asleep, and Dana was behind me in a chair sleeping against the wall, so honestly neither of us remember anything. After our “lesson” we went for an even more exciting trip to… (drum roll) the local landfill! woohoo. Let me tell you, it was wonderful. It smells amazing and there are no bugs at all. HA. Kidding. It looked like the Elephant graveyard from the lion king (I know, two lion king references in a row) There were seriously so many bones and dead things all around the trash. And the mosquitos there were SO bad. I was literally covered in them. So I drenched myself in a lovely bug spray perfume. (Everything I own smells like bug spray, except my pajamas). After our landfill trip we drove about a mile to Lake Ferguson, which was a complete 180 from the landfill, the water there sparkles and shimmers and it’s gorgeous. We got to wear waders out into the water to take water samples to test. Which was really weird feeling… cause they suction to your butt and your legs and it feels like you’re weightless and walking on the moon. And before we left, we saw what they call a “rainbow halo”. It looks like an actual halo around the sun.
Dana at Lake Ferguson
Setting the fashion standard high in waders at Lake Ferguson. I know, I'm hawt.
The "Sun Halo"
Our group was the first to get home for lunch cause we’re always hungry, plus we get about an hour break for lunch so if you can eat in less than twenty minutes you can also take a decent nap, which is what we did. Honestly, if we have any down time you can probably find Dana and I sleeping somewhere. We’ll sleep anywhere, anytime, for however long we can get. Everyone else probably thinks we’re anti-social… After lunch and our daily nap, we went out into the lounge to work on our presentations from the landfill and Lake Ferguson. Which was really nice cause we had a nice chill afternoon. And after at we had dinner, wanna guess where? The Thai restaurant. Who would’ve guessed I’d be eating so much Thai food in Greenland. -__- After Thai and a little break we had a little lecture from Kasper about Greenlandic whales, he showed us a ton of pictures from Aasiaat whale watching. It was so cool! The best part though was when he showed us a video of the whale getting really close to his kayak and he said he was “Super calm and cool” and when the camera is turned to him, he has the funniest face I’ve ever seen, like a kid in a candy store. After the whale talk, we had a “token exchange” where the students gave little gifts that they brought that they thought represented where they came from. I gave the lollipops with scorpions in them, Mexican lollipops, and cactus candy. But from the other students I got: a cute pink sport bag, A rock that shimmers blue when it’s wet and in the sun, three postcards, stickers, pens, a handmade necklace, taffy, keychains, coins from the U.S. mint, a Ptarmagin feather, quite a few pins, chocolate, a guitar pick, and a really cool sheet of pressed Greenlandic flowers that a few of the Greenlandic girls made. It was a really cute idea and it was a ton of fun! And they tols us the plan for tomorrow, we’re going to the ice sheets! So I’ll be taking a ton of pictures! Plus now we actually get to go back to our rooms fairly early (nine ish). But now that I have down time, I really miss everybody. I wish I could call my mom, and my dad, my sisters, my boyfriend, all my friends, I just wanna hear everyones voices. I just miss everybody so much. I guess you don’t realize how much you actually talk to them until you have no way to be in contact with them. Anyways, I'll talk to you all as soon as possible!
Much love,
Sydney
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