Megan's Alaska Adventures

       I chose to delay my blog post from Monday to Saturday this week because I knew I had more going on towards the end of this week. As far as updates go, I achieved my goal of waking up and getting out of bed earlier. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find somewhere outside I can run. It got a lot colder very quickly and I think the time for some casual hiking and running is going to be ending very soon.      Starting with the beginning of the week, I've been getting more comfortable taking the bus everywhere. I went to target for some shopping, I take the bus to class every tuesday, and I take it every time I go to the gym. It's been coming in handy just to get from place to place since everything is kind of spread out.      I went to have dinner with a group of friends on Wednesday, saw Dear Evan Hansen on Thursday, and had a movie knight with friends on Friday and I cooked a blueberry pie for everyone. Nothing better to bring people together than eating pie, righ

      So I've officially been here for a month and it seems like it's been so much longer than that. It's been a great week! Three weeks into the semester and I've finally had my first normal week. I rode the bus to yoga class for the first time and I'm excited for that class. We spent most of the time doing some basic beginning yoga stuff and she taught us about the more technical things involved in breathing and posture. I also took the bus later in the week to go to the gym. It was my first time running in about 4 weeks since I had been training for the half marathon I didn't get to do (sad). I just did 3 miles and it was a little rough but I've gotta start somewhere so at least I got out of bed.       I also met up with some friends and we had a potluck dinner. We went to Kincaid park and had a bit of a picnic. It was cool for a while but then it started raining so we went back to my dorm where we played some airhockey and a few rounds of a card game (ca

     This week was already more eventful than the first two weeks combined and it was fantastic! I was starting to think I'd just be doing homework in my room all semester. But believe me, there was plenty of that too. Chemistry remains to be my most difficult class by far. But hard classes, spending a lot of time on school work, and the fact that online classes are worst is nothing new. I'm trying to focus more on the cool things I do while I'm here and this is the first week so far I can do that!     I went to see Shang-chi in theaters since the school was offering tickets to students and, lucky for me, a shuttle to and from the theater. I made a friend and she invited me to the state fair on Saturday! So we went with a group of 5 and spent most of the day at the fair. We got tickets for some of the rides, watched a dog show, ate a bunch of food, and pet some animals. After, we took a short hike to see a waterfall, took a quick break, and then went to a bonfire. Easily th