Who Does Work at College?

I guess if college were easy everyone would go. I have a 10 page paper due tomorrow, a final on Monday and another 10 page paper, and a final presentation on Tuesday. Busy busy busy. My final paper about sustainability and it's ever-changing definition, and how it relates to my ever-evolving quest to become sustainable. It is hard to live by something you cannot define. Thank you Rick for assigning us such a complex paper to write amongst all our other final work. My other papers won't be hard to write, but this one is going to be tough. Regardless of how I feel about the subject matter it still must be completed. I started by looking over my last papers for ideas about how to go about the final. I always put a little bit of personal story that relates to the topic. In my paper I found this gem

My cousin Nathan, our friend Joe and myself took a canoe ride. We wanted to explore a brook where we’d seen loons go. We took the canoe up the brook under fallen trees, around sharp bends, through brambles. We were analyzing a fallen branch and how best to go around it. When I said to Nathan and Joe, “I think I hear running water.” They stopped talking and they heard it too. Then it happened, a wall of water, we could see coming up the brook, a soaking summer rain. What took us two hours to of careful navigation took us only minutes in an attempt to beat the rain. I have never paddled faster in my entire life, the canoe shot out of the brook like a cannon ball. In the end we got half way home and the wall of rain caught up. We were drenched, instead of thinking about how our exploration to find the loons was rained out; we laughed at the sky, and yelled at mother nature “Is this all you got?” taunting the weather. Rarely I have felt more alive than I did that day in the storm.

Thought some people from home would enjoy that.
Interestingg fact time! I've been extremely nerdy lately, and researched the boabab tree (tree that lives in Benin). It's a tree that looks like it's something out of a 5 year olds drawing. It is very hard to determine the age of the trees though, because they do not produce tree rings. I thought that with seasons of rainy and dry, there would a be a growth pattern but there isn't, strange. Instead the tree holds water in it's trunk, like a cactus would. An average size tree can hold 32,000 gallons of water! If I'm drying of thirst maybe I'll break into one of their trunks. But people hollow the trunk out and use them for different purposes. Like the one to the left is a toilet. I'm not really sure how the plumbing would work, but I'm not sure if I want to know. Another one was used as a jail for a time. I thought it was interesting, also I think I have the same backpack as the one in the picture (crazy that a company would make more than two of the same bag!) Back to work, au revior!