The First Week of School!

Don't worry pictures are taken just have not been uploaded yet

My first week and two days of University/English 12 are over. My week has been awesome! The English class I am in should not be called English 12 but English 3 as it is extremely easy. The first three days were sentence structure. What? and then we moved on to paragraphs, WOW! I know what you are thinking seriously Luke? Yes. I am serious.

My university campus however is awesome. Built into a hillside and with a lot of trees and many, many bunnies and baby bunnies. AWESOME! and distracting, where was I? Oh yeah and you can see the mainland from my University. I got my first assessment back yesterday and it was 75%. Not bad if you ask me putting me in the upper quartile of the class. and that was only my draft so it is not even worth 1% of my final grade. I expect at least 85% with my revised work.

Today Sara and I had to catch a Lamb for the slaughter. It went, as Sara says, Semi-smoothly. I used a lasso, I had fashioned out of rope, and put it around its neck. However, I soon noticed that it was choking the lamb so I had to loosen it and hold it right at the neck. It was then that I learnt just how high a lamb can jump. Nevertheless the lamb was soon in the trailer eating hay and oats. Then we had to put the water bucket in. Worried that if we opened the gate the lamb would run out I decided I would lift the bucket and lower said bucket over the gate and lower it with a piece of bailing twine. All fine and dandy. Until the bucket tipped towards me and some, I would like to stress not all, of the water poured onto me (yes it was enough that I had to shower as it was nasty animal water) But the twine worked perfectly and the lamb was soon content and happily eating one of its last meals.

Fishing and Stargazing

Friday night Sara and I drove over to Cameron lake to watch the sunset there. Cameron lake is an idyllic, quiet spot surrounded by mountains on all sides. Simply beautiful and other than a floating dock, to which Sara, her cousin heather and I swam to, completely untouched by man. The water is clear and calm and the sun reflects of its surface as if it were a mirror (See the pictures below). After we watched the sun go down we drove back to Sara's street and right passed the house until the end of the road. Here we climbed onto the roof of our car and stared into the eternal starlit sky. Here I must elaborate for my readers that live in Germany, that when you look into the sky, you don't even see a tenth of the stars, I could see the Milky Way with my bare eyes (again see pictures below).

Saturday Sara's uncle, grandfather, father and I went out fishing in the ocean, the first good catch of the day, was really heavy, broken the reel I was working so I had to wind the reel manually, turned out to be kelp and a large rock. After about 6 hours out on sea we did catch one Salmon worth keeping which I then cleaned out under instruction of Sara's mom. After it was cleaned we filleted it and pulled most of the bones out (this all happened Sunday) and finally threw on the barbecue. It tasted awesome.

Sunset over Cameron Lake, Taken with my Nexus 7 FHD

Cameron Lake and Sunset, Taken with my D50

The Milky Way, and stars, as seen above Sara's house

Cameron Lake's crystal clear W
waters