"I'm not alone"

As the song from Rent says, "I'm not alone".  I'm finally starting to see the light from under all of my homework! Ok, so that title doesn't make the most sense considering what I'm going to talk about. Actually it makes almost none... but its ok! I'm going to give you a re-cap of what has happened since the last time I posted (sorry, long time :<)  

Ok, first I did my taxes, then spent a week working on a really big group project for my visual communication class. We had to create our own (ridiculous) society and then make up a rite of passage ritual that one of our younger members must go through. We were a gang of umpa-lumpas (yes, the willy wonka kind) that loved to break dance. We made crazy masks and wore these huge green wigs with purple bandanas(pictured above). Then we did a rap dance to some music I put together and made a younger umpa-lumpa learn the dance. It ended up being quite a lot of fun, but it did take a lot of time and effort. 

On top of that I was doing two papers and another biggish project for another class plus studying/worrying about a history of the middle east test. yikes! 

Ok, now through all that I had one thing (well many, but relax k?!) on my mind. Our local ski mountain closes soon! (It actually closed today!, sad...) I was working on a ski film that I needed desperately more footage for. My Ski-Bro and I got up early on tuesday and thursday to go film for that. Which involved having a great time, but also throwing ourselves off of cliffs that, in many cases, we could not land... At least it was powder, right? Never hurt to much, but really wore you out! Look for a link to an excerpt of that film before to long. 

This past weekend I did the work for a very important project in my outdoor leadership class. My partner and I had to lead a community activity. We decided to teach "at risk" kids how to rock climb. We went through an organization similar to "big brothers, big sisters". On saturday we taught a smallish group of kids and their adult partners how to tie climbing knots, belay, and basics of rock climbing. It was really fun! but again very waring... I was toasted afterwards. But, it was such a nice lookng day that, after all the kids left my partner and I decided to hike about 2 miles (in a lot of mud) to a good outdoor rock climbing place. It turned out to be way to cold to climb (bare hands and sub-freezing temps do not mix well). I got to the first bolt of the sport climb before I gave into this fact. Then of course I had to make a very sketchy down climb. But all together it was a very fun excursion. We ca say that "well, now we know where to go..." haha! 

Yep its been a pretty crazy week. 

Thanks for keeping an eye out for my posts, I'll try to never go that long in between again.

Peace!