Piragüismo

       Before I start this post let me just say I'm writing this the day after because my arms were like wet noodles and I could barely keep my eyes open past 10pm.

      As some of you may know I'm enrolled in Environmental Science as a course this year (we call it Ciencias Ambientales). Every Friday we have the 2 last periods of the day to do excursions or labs for the class, and it being the first Friday of the year of course something amazing was planned.

    Our plan for the day was to go kayaking down the river (piragüismo). We rode two person kayaks that you sat on down on top of instead of inside. Cooper was my partner for the whole kayaking experience, and also my personal radio because he would sing to me, and the whole group, a wide variety of songs from Frozen to Nicki Minaj. Within the first 10 minutes of the trip we were all soaked from splashing each other with our paddles which is no surprise because who doesn't love splashing around, but later on it became more relaxing as we looked at the beautiful scenery around us. We took a 20 min break in the middle of the trip and stopped on a shore to talk about the river. All of us were thinking, "man this river looks beyond dirty", but during our break we talked about the river and the fact that the reason it is a weird brown color is actually because of the sediment in river. We also talked about structural issues with some areas of the city with rain water pipes and faulty flood structures, but I won't go too much into that because I'm clearly not an expert... yet.

     As we kept paddling we saw the empty Zaragoza water tower, which looks like a really nice office building to me, and we paddled by Pilar, both of which were so beautiful. In the last few minutes of our trip the sun started to set and created all these amazing colors in the sky around Pilar (because our trip was about 5 hours or so). I can definitely say now that Envi. Sci. is my favorite class so far :).

    Also on a side note this morning when I was talking with my host mom about how my arms were sore she told me that honey helped with that (which I didn't know) and so she put some honey in some warm milk for me, which I have to admit I was skeptical about, but it was so delicious!! The best way I can describe the taste is by imagining the sweetness of chocolate milk but more of a vanilla honey flavor. If you're feeling adventurous I highly suggest trying it.

          Hasta Luego!
                      Lauren