Back to Reality

So I'm back at Truman and back to the reality of class and extreme work ethics. I have really enjoyed this semester and I can refect and already tell that I have been the happiest I've been since starting Truman. I feel like I'm doing something productive and worth my time and that makes things a bit less stressful. Nevertheless, we still have a ton of work to do this next week! I'm starting to feel the pressure so lets see if a list helps:

Book Report
Wiki Final
JINS book project
Annotated Bibliography
Finish research
Finish research paper
Bio presentation
Writing Enhanced work
ENVS survey
ENVS paper
ENVS presentation

Yeah, no. That was dumb and I'm now really scared that I have a week to the day to finish...oh no.

Here Comes Goodbye

It’s the last week here and I feel as if I should reflect on the trip a bit. The weirdest thing was today when I packed my bags. I automatically pictured myself at the airport and going home with them and it’s exciting to be clean again but I feel like the trip shouldn’t be ending yet. At the beginning it felt like we had all been living with each other forever when it had only been a week. Now that we have been living together forever, I feel like it’s only been a week and everything is just starting. It’s really hard for me to picture a routine at Truman and back in the States but I guess I have to pretty quick. I’m ready for some time away and time to myself without 24 other people being around. I’m also ready to be able to go into a public place and speak English and have the workers understand me. I’m ready to not have to hike 20-30 minutes to get anywhere. I’m ready to drive my car with my music playing and the windows down. I’m not ready to leave the tropical weather or the sun. I’m not ready to give the experience of living at La MICA and with 24 other people. I’m not ready to go back to scheduled classes, tests and studying again. I’m not ready to leave Panama yet, but I am ready at the same time.

A Day in the Life

I’m going to take Courtney’s idea and also do a day in the life of. I’m not sure how this is going to go since every day here is different but I’ll try.

Wake up between 7:00 and 8:00

Eat breakfast

Play a card game or bananagrams

Depending on the day, leave for Cope\Julie’s house

After hiking out we either hike to Cope or catch the bus

We usually go to the Chino for drinks and snacks before we go to Juile’s

Do some work at Julie’s by organizing the presses, taking notes on the plants,taking pictures of the plants, matching the pictures with the notes, loading it into the computer and (before the plant expert’s input) we would try to key them

Depending on our attention span, we’re either back by lunch or dinner

Play another round or two of cards

Spend the rest of the night with my computer trying to write excursion reports and essays for history and JINS

In bed between 9:00 and 10:00

This has been what my days have been lately since we’ve been trying to get our work done before we leave. Sometimes my days include catching a bus to Penonome for some internet time or there may have been plant collecting involved. Luckily I get to work on our project and take shifts in helping to keep Chad entertained with card games and bananagrams :)