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Greg was here this weekend - now he's gone and I'm sad.
I've realized I haven't updated much at all lately. Ever since we got back from Mexico I was just slammed with work. But it ended up going okay. I was able to pull a 100 on my last phsyics quiz and an okay grade on my last chem exam before the final. It seems like everyone I know who is still in undergrad is getting done with their finals and I still have one more day of class and then two study days before our finals period even starts.
We had a really really great time in Cancun. We went to Chichen Itza and spent the rest of the time by the pool in the hotel. There is no beach left there. Like none at all. At high tide the waves were breaking up against the retaining wall of the pool area. When the tide went down Greg and I scurried under the barriers and walked along a bit but you had to be careful because the ocean is taking out the wall and there is rebar exposed everywhere and big hunks of concrete displaced. It is really sad actually. I have never seen beach erosion on that scale before. We went in the water a little ways but surf was really rough and since most of the sand is gone you get beat up by rocks and it really wasn't worth it. I do love th Carribean though, they have the best oceans from a color and warmth standpoint. I had just been home like a week before that and Greg and I had a picnic on Sanibel for by birthday and the Gulf water was too cold to go in. We had a taxi driver take us to Chichen Itza and we got pulled over by the cops because our driver was going like 10 km over the limit. Here they wouldn't really bother your for going 65mph in a 60 but there he got pulled over and had to pay the cops to not give him a ticket. It was a really long drive but worth it. Greg was my tranlater the whole time because the driver didn't speak english very well, so that gets kind of old. Everytime I wanted something I was like "Ask him, blah blah." And then he answers Greg. So I am like the invisible person. Actually, I can understand most of it but can't really speak it so I let Greg do all the talking. Also, once you leave the tourist zone somehting I did not know - no toliet seats! SO glad to be back to the hotel for that. There were some drug checkpints set up too and the cops had very scary weapons. It was interesting leaving the zona hotelera.
Other than that, school is school I guess. Both of my finals arer next monday. Time to start the push, I guess. Besides Farmville my new favorite wasting time device is Autocomplete Me. There are very few things I laugh at like some of these. Especially the dinosaur trio lately:
"I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur," "Dinosaurs were made up by the CIA to discourage time travel" and "I really hope you get sexually violated by a pterodactyl tonight"
It just makes me smile. In fact I think it needs to be on my facebook immediately.
I've realized I haven't updated much at all lately. Ever since we got back from Mexico I was just slammed with work. But it ended up going okay. I was able to pull a 100 on my last phsyics quiz and an okay grade on my last chem exam before the final. It seems like everyone I know who is still in undergrad is getting done with their finals and I still have one more day of class and then two study days before our finals period even starts.
We had a really really great time in Cancun. We went to Chichen Itza and spent the rest of the time by the pool in the hotel. There is no beach left there. Like none at all. At high tide the waves were breaking up against the retaining wall of the pool area. When the tide went down Greg and I scurried under the barriers and walked along a bit but you had to be careful because the ocean is taking out the wall and there is rebar exposed everywhere and big hunks of concrete displaced. It is really sad actually. I have never seen beach erosion on that scale before. We went in the water a little ways but surf was really rough and since most of the sand is gone you get beat up by rocks and it really wasn't worth it. I do love th Carribean though, they have the best oceans from a color and warmth standpoint. I had just been home like a week before that and Greg and I had a picnic on Sanibel for by birthday and the Gulf water was too cold to go in. We had a taxi driver take us to Chichen Itza and we got pulled over by the cops because our driver was going like 10 km over the limit. Here they wouldn't really bother your for going 65mph in a 60 but there he got pulled over and had to pay the cops to not give him a ticket. It was a really long drive but worth it. Greg was my tranlater the whole time because the driver didn't speak english very well, so that gets kind of old. Everytime I wanted something I was like "Ask him, blah blah." And then he answers Greg. So I am like the invisible person. Actually, I can understand most of it but can't really speak it so I let Greg do all the talking. Also, once you leave the tourist zone somehting I did not know - no toliet seats! SO glad to be back to the hotel for that. There were some drug checkpints set up too and the cops had very scary weapons. It was interesting leaving the zona hotelera.
Other than that, school is school I guess. Both of my finals arer next monday. Time to start the push, I guess. Besides Farmville my new favorite wasting time device is Autocomplete Me. There are very few things I laugh at like some of these. Especially the dinosaur trio lately:
"I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur," "Dinosaurs were made up by the CIA to discourage time travel" and "I really hope you get sexually violated by a pterodactyl tonight"
It just makes me smile. In fact I think it needs to be on my facebook immediately.