Off to New Mexico!

It's finally here! I'm leaving with my parents Friday for New Mexico! I'm going for a 3 week class starting June 1st focusing on obsidian and chert deposits which resulted from volcanic activity in New Mexico. There are 13 of us including a GSI (Graduate Student Instructor) Celeste and our professor Steve Shackley. The blog will be a reflection of my class including pictures, lessons, and commentary on the surrounding area!

We had a meeting yesterday about the trip, and it seems like Albuquerque is going to be our base at Univ of New Mexico, and we'll be camping for the longest 3 days. Compared to what I was expecting, this seems like we're getting pretty pampered. In the dorms we each get our own rooms, for God's sake! Luckily it's in the middle of a city kind of like Berkeley--a college town--so there will be places to hang out; and there's a field near the dorms so we can play Frisbee or something of that nature on the weekends as well.

Read this article about Santa Fe if you ever think about going there: http://nyti.ms/a19q7u. Phil sent it to me, and I think we'll check out some of the places suggested in it this weekend.

I'll try to post every day, but when we're camping I'll just be jotting down notes in a notebook to type up later (there isn't internet in the wilderness, obviously). I'll probably update once with a summary of the class from my syllabus later in the week, and then Friday will begin the festivities with my parents in Santa Fe! Hope you all can enjoy what I've seen through this blog as much as I've enjoyed it out in the field!

Go bears!