One of the coolest things I think I've learned while I've been here is Celestial Navigation. This is pretty much what you might expect from the title... navigating using the Sun, Moon and 57 star constellations. While on shore, we've learned how to do this with the sun, but the same concepts apply to the Moon and Stars. Essentially what happens is you get an angle using a Sextant and at the exact moment you read the angle, someone else takes the exact time, down the the second. You then turn to your Nautical Almanac, which has the information to give you the location of the sun for every SECOND of every HOUR of every DAY of every WEEK of every MONTH of the year. Everything is measured from the Greenwich line, which is the official longitude of 0º, from which you measure longitude west or east. But once you know where the sun is in relation to Greenwich, you can determine how far you are from Greenwich and therefore know you are that far from Greenwich. But because you could be in any direction from Greenwich, you create a circle with the distance as the radius, and you know you must be somewhere on that cirlce. You then have to narrow it down further and find something called an intercept, which tells you where you are on the circle. If this made no sense to you... I don't blame you. It's insanely CONFUSING. BUT.... it works! It's extremely exciting though when you get it right! :)
A few of the girls and I started going on dinner dates to get away for a while and it was really great. The first time a bunch of went to Añejo, which is a mexican restaurant/tequila bar. It was delicious, but probably would have been cooler if we could have use the Tequila bar! The second time just four of us went to Stone L'Oven for pizza which was delicious and fun.
Lauren and Shelley!
Then we got some ice cream and we wanted to get our palms read by the fortune teller in town, but she wasn't there! So we called her and set up an appointment for the next day! It was a very intersting experience and apparently, someone is trying to hold something from my family, and we have to fight to get it, but we will win in the end. I was also told to expect twins to come into the family soon... so everyone... let me know. The Duchess... our fortune teller... also told me that I have a temper but its a good temper because it only lasts for five minutes and then it's gone... I think thats the only point she made about me that's right!
A few weeks ago, we were asked to sign up for a beach cleanup day as part of the international beach clean up attempt. I was in a group of four, with Paige, Lucas and Justin and we spent about an hour and a half walking down a long stretch of beach to a place called the knob which is a rock formation jutting out into the water that you can walk up to and see Buzzards Bay. It was a really fun day full of jokes and disgusting trash. It was a beautiful day!
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