Saturday started off as a typical dismal Seattle day, with rain. Since the weather’s been cold, the rain was a mix of snow and rain. We woke up, and changed into jeans, a warm sweater, and hiking boots. For our first class, we met @ Lincoln Park where the Fauntleroy/Vashon ferry transfers people to and from Vashon island. (photo courtesy of http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/05/13/index.html) I was in a very sour mood because of my busy schedule, I did not have a chance
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Bill and I entered the UW bookstore, and immediately I noticed all the people in the store. While it was certainly not a large number to be termed a crowd, it was most certainly enough people for me to wince. In a small corner of the UW bookstore, there was a tiled fireplace with a row of pictures above it, three pictures depicting the sport of rowing and it’s importance to UW. The pictures were color, but there was no
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Yesterday, I attended the third class in the series of OSAT Glacier Climbing Course. This class was about hypothermia, safety, compass reading and giving the reasons as to why we’re climbing. I learned some new things about how a body warms itself up and that preventative is the best medicine. After Teneriffe, I heeded the advice with much more attention. We learned how to read a compass and how to “box” the needle and change permanent settings to reflect “true
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Lucky for me, I was an IT trainer in my former life so public speaking isn’t something that scares me. A few weeks ago, during my UW Writing Class, a piece of paper was passed with the title of “UW Reading” and I had a little image pop up in my head of a badly lit rooms with a squeaking microphone and a hunkering hairy man with a large beard reading poetry. When the piece of paper got to me,
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