Sorry I’ve missed a couple of days. Nothing important happened. Homework, homework, food, food, read, read.
Ah, Tuesday! We didn’t have a workshop today, and my activity wasn’t until 10 at night, so I basically had a load of time to myself after class ended at 11.30. After lunch, I worked on some homework. Next week I have to give a 10-minute presentation on highland dance. The plan is that I’m going to waste a few minutes teaching everyone how to do a jig break, and then I’m going to gush too much over the Seann Triubhas, and then everyone will think I’m a crazy jock!
Caleigh and I went swimming at the campus pool. Well… we floated a lot. But I did swim a few laps and do a couple of dives. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I hadn’t lost my diving skills. Then we watched some kids dare each other to jump off the high-dive. One kid–he was maybe ten–did a swan dive! It was very, very impressive.
Then it was time for supper, after which we returned to residence to do more homework and relax before our late-night activity.
The activity was star-gazing. There’s an observatory on the roof of the Taillon building (where we eat), so that’s where we headed to. There were only twenty people allowed, and all of us had signed up really quickly.
The smaller telescope had a fantastic view of the moon, but when we went into the observatory with the grand telescope was when it got cool! The professor explaining things pressed this button on his keypad and the entire observatory started to rotate until we were facing Jupiter! Basically, you just type the name of the star or planet into the keypad, and the observatory and telescope adjust themselves accordingly. That’s probably why the observatory and all its fixings were $30 million. So I got to see Jupiter for the second time! Unfortunately, there was no Ganymede this time, like there was in Vancouver, but there were two moons visible.
I was actually really tired by the time I got home, so I brushed my teeth, curled up and went to sleep.
