Hello Friends, Family, and (especially) Prospective Students! I'm in the middle of my third block here at Quest: Spherical Trigonometry. It is amazing (something that, believe me, I've NEVER said about math before), and my professor is incredible. But right now I've got something a little more interesting to tell you about. Not that math isn't interesting, because it is. But... read on.
As you probably know, the Vancouver/Whistler Winter Olympics are coming up. You may or may not know that Squamish is right between Vancouver and Whistler on the Sea to Sky Highway, and Quest has agreed to rent out our residence buildings. So we've got to leave campus for the months of January and February and go pursue adventures, education, and/or employment elsewhere.
Until yesterday morning, I was tentatively planning on heading down to southern Chile to play outside in February, and was trying to wrangle up something else crazy and amazing for January. These (rough) plans were completely obliterated in the best possible way, however, when one of the students who was on the Borneo trip decided not to go.
What is the Borneo trip? It is incredible. A group of 18 Quest students is flying to Borneo (an island in Indonesia) for two months with an organization called Ethical Expeditions (you can look them up online if you're interested). There we'll... well, I'm not quite sure what exactly we'll be doing, as I've only just signed on, but it involves conserving the rainforest and saving the orangutans. I believe this does involve actually hanging out with orangutans. Needless to say, I am ridiculously stoked. It was kind of a mad rush to book an international ticket within 24 hours of deciding I was going to go (I guess it's nice that Bank of America blocks my credit card when I try to buy a $1600 ticket on SingaporeAir.com ...), but definitely worth it when I opened my confirmation e-mail and realized: I'm going to Borneo in January!
More about spherical trig, and the rest of my life (although there's not much of it outside of math just now) later!
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