Adjusting to Life Here

Aloha! 
How is everyone doing? I wish people would leave encouraging posts, I feel like I am taking to the abyss out there. Anyway it's been officially two weeks since I've been here and it has been awesome so far. I won't deny that I've had bouts of feeling lonely and homesickness, but all and all it's been an adventure. Yesterday was one of my friends birthday's here and we went for a 4 dollar hamburg and free wings. Nothing like living for happy hour prices. I drank way too much pbr and ate too many chips, but honestly it was worth it. Kings cup has been a weekly tradition so far. I learned that in California if you pick a 5 it means drive which if your curious is a cool way of playing and keeping the game interesting. 


You probably want to know about my work. Well, I've been prepping for my program. I have to give an hour walk to the Devils Postpile two times a week. My theme:  Just as the natural environment has shaped the valley and Devils Postpile, so have the people who have come before us. I'll be talking about John Muir, Jedeiah Smith, the Piutes and President Taft who officially signed the declaration in 1911 to establish the land as a national monument. Most of my friends are taking a more natural science, geology route, but I like to make my life more difficult. No, in all seriousness I like talking about the history of people in the resource.


Next week some of the other SCA's and I are going to Manzanar, (the Japanese internment camp in WWII) for an archeological dig of some sort. I'm super pumped about getting out of Mammoth Lakes for a few days. It's a nice town here but it's super small and you run into the same people all the time. I work and live with the same people. They are awesome, but it can get a bit too much when you spend literally ever waking hour with them. 


I miss back East a lot. I've been working on some graduate school stuff. I decided that I want to go back to school for Fish and Wildlife Management. Right now I've been looking into Syracuse, Colorado State University and Oregon State University. I'm hoping to take my GRE's by the end of the summer, but that might be difficult. I don't want to sacrifice having a blast here. We will see if I can feel ready to take the test in two months or so. I've been pretty diligent about fitting in time here and there. Hope everyone is good. 


Till next time folks!