Yesterday, I went on our UCM retreat. Originally, we were going to a place called Globe Creek, but there was a ton of snow yesterday, which made driving in less-traveled roads too dangerous. So, instead of camping at a camp, we camped at a hotel. We hung out doing some worship and watching Nooma videos. The next day, we hiked over to the Barnes & Noble across the street. There, I bought the first Harry Potter book in the language it was always meant to be read in: Spanish. We did some more hanging out and worship and Nooma, then came back home. That was my fun retreat!
Here are some pictures I've been taking (From random times and places)
Beginnings of the snowman army
More snowmen
Mega snowman
My friend Will, at the retreat, cutting a tomato vertically rather than horizontally
My friend, Zach, eating. I kept getting blurry images and so I had to keep awkwardly taking more.
These next images are from Starvation Gulch. For those who want to know more about what that is, copy paste this URL: https://www.uaf.edu/woodcenter/activities/traditions/starvation/
Basically, its burning pallets that have been shaped into towers or buildings.
Fires!
One group built a firetruck out of pallets. I suppose there's an irony in a burning firetruck set ablaze by firefighters.
Burning Eye of Sauron
It burns!
The Eye of Sauron pallet pile collapsed.
You can feel the warmth far away.
DJs playing trap music loudly.
Here's the firefighters lighting that building in the back on fire.
Stack on fire
A fair amount of people. Maybe 400ish.
View from a distance. There were also tens in front selling food and stuff.
I've been trying to get a job. I'd kind of rather just not have a job so I could have plenty of time for my 16 credits, my friends, as well as retaining a little bit of my sanity, but I need the income. I'm seeing if I can continue my internship I had last semester and summer, but I don't know yet if it will work. The professor I worked with seemed optimistic.
One reason I'm hoping for a job (in addition to offsetting the cost of flying and textbooks) is I hope to study abroad next fall. I'm hoping to go to la Universidad de la Habana, which is a university in Cuba. I still need to earn a couple of scholarships and work out transferring credits I earn there to UAF, but I'm optimistic.
It should be an interesting experience. I've never lived so far south, so the heat might be tough. It might also be a challenge that there are 2.1 million people in La Habana, which is far more than any where I'll've lived in for more than two weeks. And, of course, I won't be speaking English. I'm hoping for something like an English tutoring job there though; that should be fitting for me.
If I were to come back for my Spring semester 2017, I could earn a double major in Linguistics and Spanish. Financially, that'll be tough. However, I think going through with that will pay great dividends in the future. I'm going to do my best to get that to work, and hopefully it will all go well.
Going to Cuba would be fun! I hope it works out for you.
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