"Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." -Mark
Twain
About me:
First of all,
I am from a southwestern suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yes,
I live near the Mall of America. Yes, I call soda "pop." I
also learned the childhood game "duck duck goose" as "duck duck grey duck."
I lived in Winnipeg, Canada for one year as well. The average
high temperature that winter was -40 (which,by the way, is the point
at which Fahrenheit and Celcius are equal). So you may say that
I am used to the cold weather, but in my opinion you can never truly get
used to really cold weather. I am, however, used to dealing with cold
weather so don't be surprised if you run into me on campus wearing knee
high winter boots and lots of layers! I am a huge fan of snow, and
since it snowed this weekend my friends and I had some fun times playing
in the snow, and successfully managed to get ourselves completely covered
in it, as you can see below.
I love to spend time in the great outdoors. This summer I spent
40 days canoeing in the beautiful arctic tundra up by Hudson Bay. It was
through a YMCA camp based in northern Minnesota, and there were six women
total, two canoes, and 500 lbs of food. We traveled on two rives, the Kazan
and the Kunwak. I have included some pictures of my trip down below.
Here you can
see just how far north in Canada we truly were. We couldn't even use
a compass up their because we were too close to the magnetic North Pole.
We were never quite north enough to officially be in the arctic, however.
Here is my whole group at Kazan Falls (I am the one second from the right). Obviously we portaged around this!
Once we came upon Tulemalu Lake on July 25th, we knew we
were in trouble! The whole lake was almost completely frozen over with
thick, thick ice, so we were forced to rig up some harnesses and pull our
canoes over the ice like sled dogs!
Jasmine decides that this mini iceburg deserves a handstand.
