Monday I was quite productive. First I set the registration process into motion for the club’s Wilderness First Aid course. Somehow over the last few weeks I’ve become a savvy webmaster and the whole thing is online. If you want to check it out go to the club site on the right and then click the link and if you happen to be a UConn undergraduate, register, because spots are going fast. I also sent a bunch of emails notifying and inviting different groups of people.
I’ve recently discovered RSS feeds and that they’re the greatest thing ever. I have my email program fetch new posts from lots of blogs and then I can read them offline in Mail. It makes me more productive since I don’t have to check a handful of blogs in a browser every day. There’s an RSS feed for this blog and even one for the UCOC Blog. You can put an RSS feed into the new UConn Students page also. High tech technology stuff.
Also on Monday, I banged through all of MCAT organic chemistry. In the afternoon we put together a trip to go see The Dark Knight in San Jose. Tiago drove cutting down on commute time and increasing flexibility. Scott, Taylor and Ron also came along. It felt super awesome to just hop in the car and go somewhere with some friends, something I’ve never really done in CR
Once we successfully got to the mall in San Pedro we bought tickets ($3.60!) and hopped over to the food court where I dominated a foot long Subway. Not totally the same as home, but some good lovin’ anyway. After dinner we had an unsuccessful hunt for a wiffle ball bat and then waited in a slow line for snacks (caramel corn!) and the long line to get in the theater which was about half gringo. The movie was as-anticipated and as-hyped, amazing.
The drive home was interesting by first navigating our way out of San Jose and driving through the dark, curvy, hilly national park. We were back to La Selva before midnight and hit the hay after checking the Yankees score and reading Mike’s post on the Kasey party.
Today, I had to cut the field from our plans since I have no access to the map I need to navigate in the plantation until next week. Spent the morning toying around and showering. Massed dry samples after lunch and picked up the MCAT books again. Choppers, Taylor and Fei are out batting in Chilamate tonight. I’ll probably go to the field tomorrow, Thursday and Friday to core some trees. Dinner out with the team Thursday night. Changed the plane ticket this morning to August 4th, 11:50 p.m. arrival at Bradley. See everyone soon!
BP
7 comments:
wow you must be the smartest person in costa rica with all that stuff you have been learning, and watching a movie in spanish and understanding it is amazing... I think i am goign to see it this friday if any of the rogans want to join...
it was most definitely in english mike, just subtitles are spanish...casey will bitch about money and ryan will need to play computer games...good luck
no ryan will bitch about money cause his is all gone
Stupid poor Rogan family... My sister was the one who invited me to go. You should get more money like our family. And ryan how can you have o money when you make $17 and hour and work 40 hours a week?
And Ben I was wondering these people you are there with were are they from? Do some of them go to Uconn too?
maybe i'll do a post called, "Meet Your La Selva Researchers." There's five of us from UConn here beside me three Ph.D. students of my advisor (Vanessa, Amanda/Choppers and Susan) and one other grad student from UConn, Kelly
oh man i went an saw a movie last night (wanted) it cost 7 bux. But now i'm broke. But on a more postive note i let some isrealis borrow my truck yesterday for the day and it came back with more gas than it left so i was super happy. I;m gonna start lending it out to anyone who wants it until it comes back with a full tank of gas.
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