So... I promised to continue writing about the Arizona trip right. But to be honest, it's been more than a month and I can barely recall the details. :/ But I'll try anyhow. :)
The Western Regional Honors Conference officially began on that day, Roy and his lab mate Cassie presented on their research respectively. Roy's was about toads and their jaw morphology; Cassie's was about snakes and lizards. Interesting stuff, I learnt a lot. But I must say, if it wasn't because they were our Cal Poly people and I should stay to support them, I wouldn't choose to stay there and listen to presentations about toads lizards and snakes. Never a big fan of animals... sorry.
Then came lunchtime, lunch wasn't included so we walked out to grab a quick lunch before heading back to catch the 2nd half of the presentations. Came to this place called Macy's European Coffeehouse, and I immediately fell in love with it!! It's not just because they have a wide selection of coffee, it's the place itself.. so old, so historic, with the wooden tables and chairs, and the people who frequent the place - you can tell they're regulars there, the cutsie decorations there, and most of all a good selection of desserts. ;P what more can one ask for right? Chean would agree with me on this! ;P and Jun too. hehe. And besides, their lunch menu was really health conscious. Healthy sandwiches, pumpkin and minestrone soup, salads - which was what I got since I'm a vegetarian till the end of this month. Being there was kinda like a european experience smacked in the middle of the small small town.
This was what I've got. Café Vienna, a superhealthy salad, and to 'reward' myself for being so healthy, a brownie with some cream frosting. :)))
Those were my fellow honors mates, Natalie and Eric, posing for Pepsi ad. :PSo after lunch, we went back for the rest of the presentations, some of which were really good, but some were terrible. If I'd blogged bout this that day itself, I'd have gone into details about which presentations I enjoyed most, and which ones were horrendous. But I can't remember anything now, obviously, especially with all that had happened lately (will blog about it later). So here goes the pictures taken when we drove around the area, introducing you to of our crew. :)
We were looking for this other park but got lost, and ended up at this dam. That's Viranga in the picture, majoring in aerospace engineering i think, like Eric (from the previous picture).
This is Gregory, majoring in Physics.. I think. Shikes my memory is failing me!! Had a lot of crazy fun at the dam, climbing here and there, walking along the edge of the dam, skipping rocks, and claiming a fish pole left there by some other guy. After that, we went back to Flagstaff for pizzas and some laughs. And some deep conversation about time and space. Honors students wutt... we are nerds. :P That's about it for the day, breakfast was awesome cuz i could have my daily dose of black coffee and some milk for the calcium, and ohmygodddd the banana cake!! oh that cake was heavenly, I haven't had anything that remotely tasted like banana cake since I got here, this was the first! :)) so that's about it for the day. if i can think of more interesting stuff i'll let you guys know! ;)
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The first thing I learned that was remotely close to cooking was baking banana bread (what we call banana cake back home)
I could fly solo on that now and the feedback that I get is pretty good.
Someday =)
Hmmm this is my first time not being able to tell who the 'anonymous' is. care to tell who are you? :)
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