Well.....this weekend my ecology class had a "Salida al Terreno," which translates pretty much exactly into "Field Trip." The entire class had to camp together in a nature reserve about an hour outside of Santiago, along el Rio Clarillo. Our mission was to think up and gather data for an "ecological study" of our own design, which we will present to the professors on the last day of class. Luckily two guys that I've worked with a few other times on lab projects invited me to work with them, so I wasn't completely alone in the world, and it turned out to be pretty fun. I don't exactly know how the project will turn out; I have my doubts about the quality of the data that we gathered, but we'll see. Unfortunately I was lucky enough to get a cold right before going, and I've been pretty much exhausted as a product of the combination of being sick and going on a camping trip that didn't involve much sleeping.
Classes are starting to intensify a bit, in general, because we've only got 3 more weeks left of school. That means that I've got to final presentations (to be done in Spanish, of course, something I've never had to do before and my very well die from nerves before completing) as well as a approx. 15 page paper on the culture of protests here in Chile (I've never written more than 5 pages in Spanish, and I was pretty impressed with myself for being able to do that at the time.)
So, that's what's new this week, in case you were wondering.
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