I will never cease to be amazed by how quickly time slips away from me... it's like I'm whitewater rafting, faster and faster, approaching a waterfall yet unable to see it up ahead.

A week and a half until Easter, then three weeks and I'm finished with my first year of college. A whole year. Where did it go? I get the sensation that when I get home in May, I'll be asking myself if it even happened... Trying to think about the big picture now is way too overwhelming, so I'm just taking it one day at a time.

Life has been really good down here though! Busy, as always, but good. Classes are going well, weather is getting better... one of the days, it was 70 degrees and gorgeous! That day I went for a walk with Dave, then ran a couple miles, explored our campus a little, and did Pilates outside. Needless to say, I'm definitely taking advantage of the nice days down here. Just yesterday, the kids from the Center (for the homeless) and I went horseback riding--it was awesome! They had a really good time, and I even got to ride bareback, which was kind of scary but exhilirating. Trotting bareback was one of those things I'll probably never forget... I was just holding on to the horse's mane and squeezing my legs as tightly as I could to stay on. (I can definitely feel that today--my thighs are killing me!) So that was exciting. Last weekend we sang in a pretty big concert in the city, Mahler's Symphony No. 2. That was exciting too, and I'm glad I got to take part in it. There's certainly a lot going on, but somehow I'm still getting work done!

Speaking of work, I need to get going on a Physics project... boo. Hopefully I'll be posting a bit more soon. Farewell until then!