Tristeza

I leave Maine tomorrow and today was my last day in the lab. For this year. Dave asked me earlier in the summer if I would consider returning next summer and the more I think about it the more I really want to return. So today I told him that I will definitely come back, but that we will just have to discuss the time frame because I want to spend two weeks on Beaver Island with my favorite bio prof doing field research.
To celebrate my last day, a couple of friends and I went hiking last night on the back side of the islands (where there are no tourists). We intended to go up two peaks: Parkman and Bald. However we forgot that it is getting dark much earlier now so we found ourselves stuck on top of the first one watching the sunset. We made it down with a combination of cell phone backlights and lighters but the stars were amazing. It was a good adventure to end with. Today after a morning in the lab my lab mate and I went kayaking to check out an oyster aquaculture facility across the bay. Now it's just packing and saying goodbyes.
I wish I could skip school and stay here :(

a year ago today....

I arrived in Ecuador to start seven months of wonderment. I really wish I was back there right now. I'm trying to decide if there's any way I could visit my family for Christmas and my real mom wouldn't kill me for not spending all my winter break with her.


Memories:



Some of the people I interviewed for my oral lit class


A spider in the Amazon


My family at Christmas


One of Darwin's finches


Climbing down a mountain on the inca trail trek where I almost died from altitude sickness

para mi mama ecuatoriana: algunas fotos de maine

Una puesta del sol sobre el mar desde mi laboratorio



Todas las personas que trabajan conmigo con sus familias en una isla cerca del laboratorio. Estoy en la primera fila con un saco azul


La primera salida del sol en los estados unidos desde la montaña Cadillac. Subimos la montaña por la noche y llegamos justo con la salida del sol. Fue lindísimo


El lago "Burbujas" en el parque de Acadia


Unas flores cerca del mar

Te extraño muchísmio,
Un beso y abrazo fuerte,
Emily