Spring Break

This week we all came back from our much needed spring break to start term 3.  I spent my spring break with my boyfriend visiting Niagara Falls, Canada, and it was a blast.  We had visited the falls once before during a mid-term break, but only from the New York side, and the Canada side is definitely much cooler.  Anyways, so we all moved back to school Sunday night, and unpacked our summer, term 3 clothes to wake up Monday, April 23, to snow covering the daffodils, irises, and grass.  Walking around campus Monday was comical since almost none of the students (including me) had clothes for snowy weather, so many students were wearing shorts, flip-flips, and short sleeve shirts and were shivering miserably around campus.  Monday was also the first day of our Outdoor Adventure class which travels to Hawaii later in May.  Our professor made it clear to us that this would not be a tropical, relaxing vacation, but more of a survival, physically intensive, camping trip to teach us the bare essentials of survival, and how to live as minimalists.  We were told that we will be hiking constantly sometimes dozens of miles a day, snorkeling in famous reefs, and camping in desolate campgrounds.  In order to prepare us physically for this trip, she explained that we would have to exercise during every class, and start counting our daily caloric intake to make sure we pack enough food to sustain ourselves.  We would only be allowed to pack what we could carry throughout the entire trip; no more than 50 pounds of food and clothes for our larger camping bags, and whatever we could fit in a small day pack.  This is definitely going to be a once in a lifetime trip!