This weekend was my first try at climbing outdoors on real rock and (no pun intended) it rocked! I went with the Alpine Club to Lynn Hill about an hour and a half away and climbed a little ways up a hill until we got to a patch of boulders and pretty much just started climbing from there. There were several different climbs that tested everything from finger strength to balance. The weather was perfect and the view was even better! Rolling green hills covered with sheep and the beautiful volcanic snow topped mountains in the background. My favorite climb of the day was a crack climb we did towards the end of the day where you just had to use your back and legs to scoot your way up. We finished the day off with some awesome Turkish kabobs, which seem to be really popular here.
Class is pretty much the same as always, except I turned in my first official assignment last Friday! Now I have to wait for the grade...We've been having some pretty interesting lectures about Mastitis in cows for our Animal Health class, and we had a tutorial where we had to come up with a management strategy for a farm afflicted with chronic Mastitis cases. We received our first assignment for that class today and for the paper we will have to go observe parturition and calving on a dairy unit nearby.
I'm still in the planning stages for my mid-semester break, and it looks like it is going to be more spontaneous than expected, which will probably be way cooler! Still planning on going skydiving in Taupo at some point, maybe during the break.
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