day: 8

woke up a little later/i pressed snooze too many times, showered, ate corn pops and 2 pieces of toast with strawberry jelly. yumm-O! then went to class at 9...went on a really long nature walk, identified a bunch of trees, trekked through a bunch of snow...then worked on the research proposal for a while after lunch...then made tree identification flashcards that are really cool (they have flippy thingiess with the key features of the trees!)...then studied some more...and then made a DELICIOUS stir-fry dinner with everybody! tonight was our night to host the professor and his family for dinner! i'm a pro at stir fry. just sayin'. sooooo good. it was like, wolfgang puck level of awesome deliciousness. yup. then we played mafia. for the first time EVER...i won!!! i was soooo good. the one guy who always suspects me didn't suspect me! but then, that same guy took advantage of my gullibility the next round...and won by convincing me that he was the sheriff. he also played off of my suspicion that someone who was not the mafia was acting suspicious. make sense? he's super deceptive--not exactly a good characteristic for life, but a good characteristic for the game. it's scary how good he is. then i took a shower and now i am going to go to sleep because we have a beaver survey ALL day tomorrow (bag lunch time!) and i want to sleep in an extra 40 minutes instead of showering. hope all is well! love! :)