First Field Day

I was up again at 6:00 am today, though i was awoken around four by the cold air coming in through my window. me desperté and made coffee, returning to my room to pass an hour in relaxation.
If you have read my other posts will have seen that i have found a bicycle, albeit, a woman's bicycle but a bicycle all the same. So today i rode into work, where they hosted a breakfast for experimental station workers who choose to ride or walk to work. I just realized that i love calling this place "the experimental station". It reminds me of Lyra Belacqua and pantalaimon.

It was lovely to be served breakfast, which was not your typical morning fast breaking elements. Homemade sweet breads and frittata, sausage and pancakes. I felt at home, calm and confident.
I am still contending with the sensation that i feel both completely at home and that i am in completely new place. yes the downtown is a bit like bangor mixed with the low roofs of an antiquated mid-western town, and the same trees and plants are there. I half expect the rocks to glow green when you shut the lights out, i wish they would.

After breakfast the scholars and some graduate students took the first class of the summer field course in plant pathology. we went to a country club whose membership is $15,000 plus greens fees. what is the point of the membership if only to pay to play later on. some people in the world starve while we pay 50,000 dollars to apply to pay $150,000 for a country club membership. I am not distressed by this, but perturbed. We were fed lunch. only a small awkward moment where, choosing to assert my vegetarianism, i asked if they had any non burger/steak quesadilla/grilled chicken items. It was a delicious wrap, but i had to suffer as everyone self consciously ordered meaty entreés. all i could do was laugh and start a different conversation. I enjoyed myself, though one can grow wary of company. I did grow wary, not because i was not capable but that i did not want to. but as soon as that attention is gone i am certainly morose. As abuela told me todos seremos lo mejor que podemos.

Fun note: TODAY i saw marsh birds mating. I will upload the pictures of the trip as soon as i am able.
spoke alot of spanish today, started thinking in spanish for a little while.... progress