Tuesday 1 March 2016

Second semester - part 1

March already!? Where on earth is this time going? 

#bleedorange 
I cannot believe that in two months i’ll be on a plane coming home and my year and time as an SU student will be over. I can still remember the phone call like it was yesterday when Graham Tait called me and I sobbed down to phone to him as he announced that I was going to Syracuse! - still gives me goosebumps now! 

Oh how I would turn back time to be in Sian and Shona’s shoes right now, you girls are going to have a wonderful time and I cannot wait to see all the adventures you guys get up to as the new ‘lockerbabies’ - Im so excited for you both and over the moon that two awesome girls will be filling mine and Joanna’s shoes here at SU. All of my friends are so excited to meet you! You’re going to have an awesome time, I promise. Come with an open mind, you never know what will happen while you're here!

I came expecting it to be cold and snowy like, all the time? So far there has been one weekend where I couldn't leave my dorm because of how cold it was but apart from that, we haven't had it bad at all! Its been a crazy 'winter'! I still didn't manage to tick "build a snowman on the quad" and "sled down crouse hill" off my bucket list but we are estimated a couple of inches within he next few days so you never know! 

This semester I am absolutely loving my Zoo Management class. Ive came face to face with a sloth, given a bearded dragon a little massage on its tail and had a snake slither through my fingers. This is a class full of fun yet you still learn a lot. (I only really took the class for the penguins but its actually really good!) At the end of the semester, the zoo keepers take us to the local zoo and provide us with ‘backstage’ access to parts of the zoo that the public dont normally get to see, and for someone who is so obsessed with penguins like I am, this is exciting. And for those of you who are wondering if there is actually any learning and “how can zoo management be a class?” there is actually a lot of research that goes into the class as we are set the task of researching and designing a space for our chosen animal (penguins for me obv) and giving a presentation in order to “sell” our enclosure to the zoo keepers from Syracuse Zoo! - exciting or what?

Midterms are underway at the moment, so far I have only had one but the rest are in the calendar! 

Graeme is visiting again at the minute (best boyfriend ever or what!?) so there will be another blog post soon about all our adventures while he was here, I promise I wont leave it as long before I update you all again!

Thanks for reading!