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Chillin with L Mckiernan at SCHAP house

Laura M and I are working hard to motivate ourselves and each other to do the many things that we each consider productive. It's an admirable effort thus far, but I fear that we've not managed to get as much done as we would have liked. Laura set an ambitious goal of finishing all of her chapters of actuary practice problems and finish the presentation on casava. So far she's done some Casava. I'm fairing better, for my two phone calls and short conversation have surpassed my less ambitious goals of having a short conversation. The End.

SCHAP house is a place you can go when you're feeling jaded or you need a hug or a nature's valley granola bar.

Party in Bayelsa

just hanging out. i've got some friends here, so its nice, but i miss a certain someone! anyway, yenagoa is becoming more and more like home. I got to cook some vegetables today, and so for the first time in weeks I actually felt full. rice, peanut butter, even meat couldn't fill me, but veggies did the trick.

apparently me and cory need to have a little shift in mindset from going out and having fun in the field to being executives. pretty cool! in its own way.

I feel like the time for leaving is gone,or that it'll be gone soon. its hard to leave something the more deeply you get involved, and the idea of money is attractive, and i'm valued, and actually the fact that it would take so much effort to leave also makes me want to not leave.

but... also... i don't think i want to leave anyway! its a pretty unique/amazing experience. I do miss friends and family and certain things like gardening and sleeping, but i think i'm learning quite a bit and like being here, and seeing this totally different world.

M.alaria

I've got it
Its like a headache. A light fever. General Ache.

I probably won't die though, which is the good news.

Nigeria

I'm going to Nigeria, to the state of Bayelsa. I'm going to be assisting in rural community development. I will leave sometime after December 3rd.

Heading out

I'm going up to LA to see my sister and hopefully visit with some other friends. Then on the 23rd I go out to AZ to see prof. From there I'll go to CO to continue with levels 3, 4 and 5 of my Qi Gong curriculum, which is gonna be awesome. And I'll ask prof. and Eva (my Qi Gong guide)what I should do with my life, but as of now I'm thinking of heading out to Hawaii to live on an organic farm for a few months. And hopefully visiting Japan on the front, back, or each end of that adventure.

Then what? Hydroponics? Travel through Southern Asia? Find an NGO to work with? I don't know.

I'm readying The China Study right now. Its about nutrition and has a lot to say about the current state of medicine and misinformation that is taught so vehemently in the U.S. today. Good stuff so far.

Tenative JC Strat

Oh, goodness! It's strange going back to Palomar to take the classes that I tried to take 3 years ago, but was in too much of a hurry to wait the extra semester or two to get the prereques so that I could indeed take and pass the classes. But, that's how things go.
Here's the plan. Each course takes a semester. One of my Chem classes will have to be taken during summer, and since my Hawaii trip is making this summer look impossible, it will probably be next summer.

Over the next two years I will probably take: Physics, Physics, Bio, Bio, Chem, Chem, Chem,Chem, Chem, Psyche, Botany, Anatomy, Physiology, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, Engineering.

Perhaps that was a confusing way to lay this out. Draw a grid with four rows and four columns. Number 1 to 4 across the top indicating the semesters chronologically that I will be at Pmar over the next two years. Cross out one of the "Chem"s. Now write the classes in from left to right and then top to bottom as if writing a letter in English, using the order that I wrote them above. You will be left with columns of classes that I will take in each semester. Then add another Chem at the right hand side of the second row (which should be full of Chems) to indicate that I have to take 1 extra Chem class during summer school. Nice work team! lol if someone draws the grid. I'll be stoked.
Let me note that the goal of this is to apply to an accredited school of Naturopathy, such as Bastyr or NCNM.

My other aspirations include learning to clone trees through hydroponics, and continuing to pursue massage and martial arts, and qi gong as well.