Evening Reflections

Reflections at the end of my first full day here...

Whew! What a day! This morning was great, swimming and such. When I got back to our dorm pretty much everyone was awake and we decided to go on a hike at noon. We all met up, water and swim suits in hand (or in backpacks mostly) and headed out, with no particular destination in mind. We ended up checking out the other dorm that is for students only, and the high ropes course. We then headed on to the Superior View Hike. The hike itself took about an hour but wow were there some fantastic views! Check out the pictures:)

We relaxed on the top of the bluff/cliff for awhile and all got a bit too much sun. We then started to head back down. Most of the people in our group decided to head back to the dorm but Kati and I wanted to go swimming so we veered off from them and headed the extra 20minutes or so to Wolf Lake where we can swim (and where I was this morning). On the way there we ran into 3 deer, one of them a nearly full grown fawn that still had spots. The deer saw us and jumped/ran away. Then when we stood still and talked to them the fawn decided to come investigate. Obviously curious we kept talking to him and he got within five feet of us! So much fun! We then went swimming.

When we returned from swimming we headed out to the so called ‘co-op’ here in ‘town’ that is more of a general store than anything and is also really overpriced. All of the other naturalists arrived throughout the day and the 15 of us cooked a pot-luck style meal. It was delicious (complete with wine which we found out we can have here, yay for not having a totally alcohol free year!)

Most of us then played Apples to Apples to get to know each other better.


Well, that’s enough for tonight. Tomorrow training starts so I will likely not post twice a day like I did today. Training goes until 10pm then I’ll probably just be crashing.

I miss everyone back in Wisconsin but I am really falling in love with it here.

Take care:)