A few last things

I'm longing for warm weather, since it's been in the single digits for the past two weeks.  Out of curiosity I looked at the world map and discovered that if I wanted to go as far south as the Caribbean, that'd take me to approximately the area of Mali or Chad.  Since none of you probably find it worthwhile or fun to sit around and memorize the map of Africa like I do, I'll provide a visual aide:

Speaking of maps, I'm really excited to go to St. Petersburg, Russia in 5 weeks!  I never imagined I'd have the opportunity to travel to Russia, and although it's going to be prettttttty cold, it's going to be a great experience.  On this map, find the word "Finland", look at the big lake to the right of it, and St. Petersburg is in the bottom left corner of that lake.  Brr!  But that's not for a while.  Our first field trip is to Paris which is in a little over 2 weeks, and I'll stop writing about it right now because I'm just too excited, I could go on forever!

“And so for an eternity that can last a microsecond or a thousand lifetimes, I soar across the dark void of “the past is done, the future is not yet here.” It’s called transition. I have come to believe that it is the only place that real change occurs.”

-The Essene Book of Days by Danaan Parry