Tim, with the Next Challenge expidition grant thing
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Same ol' place, new faces!! Well, sort of new, anyways; Renita came along! Other than my fam jam, she's the only one to come camping with us! This is noteworthy because we have a bunch of friends who like camping and have expressed interest in comping along, but so far she's the only one to take us up on that! Of course, I didn't get any photos of her, but she got one of me.
Here's a slightly abbreviated email I just got(!!!)
"I think your idea is great. It's exactly the kind of thing we want to support: ambitious but the kind of thing most people could do if they really put their minds to it. (...) I am talking to some of our sponsors about getting some equipment to you in Canada. I love what you guys are doing and really hope that we'll be able to help. Apologies again for not being able to give you a definite answer. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Tim and the team" I was sitting in the GIS lab at school, a space often filled with people I know, but also quite quiet most of the time. Needless to say, I could not contain my excitement and may have let out a little squeal before telling everyone there what just happened. I then let everyone get back to work and did an internal happy dance. Here's a link to his post announcing the winners. Those other projects look so amazing! I just want to do them all. I can't believe that this is up there with those epic people and projects! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
I sure have lots to be thankful for this year, my dad and sister are visiting! Because of my dad's accident, he wasn't able to fly out here to help my sister move in (that lead to nights 18 and 19 with my sister) but he changed his flights around so he could come out here now instead! We've had a blast this weekend, going on a couple hikes and doing some beach combing. My dad is much more appreciative of my fun rock facts than my sister is :P Both my dad and I were stuffing our pockets with neat looking or cool rocks but she wasn't having any of it. I sent her back to uni with a bunch of surprise rocks in her suitcase, moihaha. For the night of the supermoon eclipse, a bunch of us headed out to our now regular camping spot on the coast. In addition to Alex and myself, three of my friends from the geo department camp out as well. Being a school night, we had to get up quite early in the morning, but all of us stayed up late watching the eclipse. It was lots of fun! We brought tents, but didn’t end up using them, since trying to find two additional flat areas proved quite difficult in the dark. The dew point was a few degrees below the forecasted low for the night, but being right on the coast, some of us woke up a little damp regardless. Fortunately, the sun and wind were enough to dry us off!
Try as I might, my camera is just not suited to taking good night shots (I can only manually change either the exposure time, the ISO, or the f-stop at one time.) A little while ago, I stumbled onto a fundraising page for a neat sounding expedition grant. Now, I am in no position to give money in that way, being a student and all, but figured that, with this challenge, I might fit in on the other side of that grant. I applied on the off-chance, not hoping for anything really, but now I'm shortlisted!! I am, apparently, "one of about 50 people to have made the list from well over 1,000 applications." Is that awesome or what?!
Now I've got to answer some more detailed questions and such, and we'll see where it goes. Based on the other projects, I doubt I'll be any competition, but hey, you never know! It was a friend from geology's birthday so we all headed out to the lake for some woods walking, camping, and campfiring...! I've been to that area before, but only for day-hikes, never overnights. It was beautiful! Most of us slept out on a granite outcrop which jutted out into the lake. Waking up there was spectacular.
Honours time!!
I just spent 5 days in Stewiacke, looking at rock cores for my honours project. Each night, I got to come back to my tent in this lovely patch of woods at Camp Geddie. I love that place so much! It was really strange being there and not having to work on hours of mapping and such after supper though, so much more relaxing than the last time I was there! I drove my sister out to her university yesterday, exciting times! Move in was today, so we spent the night at our Aunt's place. She's a prof at the school, so she gave us a bit of a tour while we walked her adorable and talented dog, Lucy. It was lots of fun! I set up my tent in her backyard, which turns into a forest. It was really beautiful, and offered a respite from my allergies. (My body has not yet taken a liking to furry creatures...)
The only flat area in the yard was right below a drain-pipe, so I was worried I'd get wet if it rained. It pored for hours! Fortunately, my tent kept all the water out, and I was still nice and dry in the morning. |
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