http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Xexe/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Xexe en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:38:32 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:38:32 +0000 Hello.I wanted to quickly upload some pictures and talk about the work. I was walking up very steep inclines up to 55 degrees and taking measurements on seedlings. The work was exposed as there is no forest at this time as a result of planting 100000 trees in March. Still there are a lot of climbers vines with thorns and caterpillars that hurt like hell and leave discolored blisterin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/blog-437853.html Despite all of these dangerouslooking insects Maria insists on being most scared of your common earthworm because it's just disgusting. She screams Holy and I look for a poisonous snake with shovelinhand but an earthworm wiggles by. A big bug with the jaws of well Jaws crawls towards her with malicious intent and she doesn't care. I crap my pants. Oh yes. Planes trains a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-431470.html Hello EverybodyI've been in Gutianshan China for about 2 12 weeks now doing an internship which is required by my program in Freiburg. Actually the first part of the internship as luck would have it is helping preliminary data collection on phosphorous nutrient cycling in the subtropics here which includes helping Maria gather information for her masters thesis. That is almost finishing a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-431463.html Hello EveryoneThanks for the comments and messagesSo I finished up a statistics class before the Holiday break and went to Norway between the 21 Dec and the 3 Jan. That trip was phenomenal My second flight from Amsterdam was delayed and they set me up in the same hotel in order to take the following morning's flight. Then the vacation...I arrived and spent a couple of days soaking in the fi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Hedmark/blog-361048.html Hey EveryoneSo this is a blog site that I just started to hopefully be a little more routinely connected to you guys. I'll be periodically posting things here in case anyone is occasionally curious about the goingson. I'll give you a quick update on everything. There's quite a bit of stuff that's happened since I left the States to study here in Freiburg Germany but as these blogs will pro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Baden-W-rttemberg/Freiburg/blog-356680.html