conquering moutains, Julian with Julianna, expensive haircuts & tests.

Conquering Mountains
Up until coming to Point Loma I never really had been rock climbing before. About a year ago I went for the first time with some super rad guys that are involved in the Point Loma outdoor program called great escapes. If you curious about what great escapes is here is a link tho their website:

http://www.pointloma.edu/CampusLife/Recreation/Great_Escapes.htm

Anyways after going climbing outdoors for the first time I'm so stoked any time I get to go. It's a sick hobby for poor college students like me (despite having to buy the gear at the beginning). But a couple weeks ago, I got invited by my friend Caleb to go with him a and two other guys climbing at El Cajon Mountain (30-40 minutes from PLNU).

This is Caleb. I refer to him as the climbing guru.

And this is the climbing guru actually climbing:

Trying to climb up what Caleb just did.

Dustin and Caleb
The whole crew (Dustin, Me, Jared, & Caleb)

Hiking in Julian.... with Julianna.
For valentines day Julianna and I went hiking near a town called Julian, which is about an hour and half from campus. (It took us about 2 hours and 15 minutes cause I got lost) Anyways, It's crazy to think that there is such crazy changes in terrain in such a short distance. For almost the whole day we went hiking at Three sisters falls... which ironically has three waterfalls....

Haircuts on a budget:

Considering its Friday afternoon and I haven't been able to sleep much this week, so I'm thinking its about time for a nap.

Cooking and such.

Now that it is three weeks into the spring semester, it's time for a serious update of this blog. I realized that I had a lot of ground to cover but here it is........

India

I found out a little bit before Christmas break (I know that's a long time ago now)..... but I'm going to be going to India as a part of the Loveworks medical team this summer. It has not really hit me yet that I am actually going there but the past couple weeks I have been thinking about it a lot and I'm sooooo stoked to get to go. A group of us will be helping at a hospital for 3 weeks at the end of may. Several other Loveworks teams comprised of other PLNU students will be going all over the place, literally all over the world. It'll be cool to experience these things alongside other students as some of my friends are going to Thailand and the Congo.

Cooking Escapades

This semester I only have the meal plan with 8meals/wk in the caf plus 100 bucks for PBC credit. (for those of you who don't know what the PBC is, its a cafe sort of place that serves coffee, burgers and sandwiches). With such few meals a week, I have had to start learning how to cook........... But the grocery store Fresh n' Easy which is right off campus has made this challenge a little bit easier.

Before:

After:

All for less than 5 bucks. booya!


Other than that there isn't too much going on besides finally getting in the swing of things with classes and trying to catch up (already) on homework. Since my updates have been sparce I figured I would post some random photos:

Random Photos:

Theodore the snowman.

The most intense blanket ever.

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San Fran

Another plug for how good the sunsets are at Loma.

This seriously never gets old.

6 Hours.

It's begining to look a lot like..... finals?

2 Finals down. 2 to go.

But more importantly I have some updates concerning my No Shave November experience. I looked into what my competition was and I found that there is a legitimate mustache competition. It's called the "World Beard and Mustache Competition". Needless to say I have come to grips with my inability to grow facial hair considering this guy won a previous competition:

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/

Besides this, there has been a lot happening since my last post. So here it goes.

Thanksgiving/Family picture:
For Thanksgiving I made the drive home for a couple days to hang out with the family and get some good eats. Along with eating we took our annual family picture (even though I don't recall taking this picture for the past couple years).

The Perfect Storm
About a week ago there was a gnarly storm that hit the Point Loma area and power went out for about six hours on the whole campus. I got lucky and was outside of Wiley when the storm was coming in.

Wiley Hall Christmas Gala
Every year in Wiley Hall we do a big Christmas party where all of the units (or most of them) decorate their rooms with some sort of themed Christmas party. So naturally my first choice for decorating my room was the Wiley hall retirement home.

It has begun.

No Shave November is well under way. I'll be the first to admit that I have a far ways to go, but I assure you the will is there.

November weather?

Its starting to get cold, and when I say cold I mean like 60 degrees. but none the less we are well into November now.

I have a couple of random unrelated updates since my last post, so I figured this would be a great time to share.

San Diego

LoveWorks.

I applied for the school program called Loveworks. This summer program is a rad opportunity to travel around the world and serve in these communities in different capacities. I applied for two different trips, one to Washim, Maharashtra, India, and the other in Tanzania. The India trip is a medical team that will be helping in hospitals and the Mwanza, Tanzania team will be doing HIV/AIDS ministry & training and church construction. In the next couple weeks I should be hearing back if I got placed on a team so I'm pretty stoked.

Halloween:

Free Chipotle on Halloween:

If you dress up as a burrito on Halloween, ie any aluminum foil, then Chipotle gives you a free burrito.

Class Registration Already?
This past week we registered for classes. Here is what next semester looks like for me:
Organic Chemistry II
Analytical Chemistry
Molecular Biology
Physics II
Philosophy
New Testament