The Final Days at FPA and Wrapping Up the Trip

So my part of the presentation is pretty much set and I'm currently waiting on John and Potts to finish editing our paper so I'll make another blog entry.

Over the past week, we have managed to FINALLY finish up our paper ... for the most part ... and the database is completely done.  We had to do a practice presentation to the professors on Thursday and they pretty much tore us a new one.  They did say my presenting voice was good though so I was happy about that.  We spent the weekend completely rewriting some parts of our paper and we had to meet with our liasion Rob Llewellyn at his house about the surveys we got back.  It's almost done now though and I am SO DAMN HAPPY!

Other then that, it's been an interesting week.  Thursday, a bunch of us went out to some random Chinese food restaurant.  Friday, I got a phone call from Rachel saying that her, Sally and Chris won four tickets to see Wicked at the theater in the middle of the city and they asked me to go, so I went.  It was the first Broadway-type musical I'd ever seen and it was really good.  Frieay was also Chad's birthday and everyone had a big party for him but we weren't there for it.  We got back from the musical around midnight.

Saturday we had to go to Rob's house to talk about our project more, so it wasn't very exciting.  After that, I spent almost six hours rewriting my section of the paper.  At night, Potts, Rachel, Renda and I went to some Italian restaurant for dinner.

On Sunday, Rachel and I went to the market in the morning (John, Potts and Sally were supposed to go with us but they didn't want to wake up).  I bought some more souveniers but I still have some more to get.  The rest of the day was spent working on our paper mostly.  Around 3, we went down to the tennis court outside the hotel because Arie reserved the area for us to have a "Last Dinner", where everyone brought all their old food for everyone to eat to get rid of it.

So today we're trying to finish everything up.  We have another practice presentation at 5:45 tonight with the professors, then we will probably go to Grill'd and go to bed because our presentations are tomorrow.  Our group is 6th out of 7 groups to present, which sucks.  We are presenting at noon and I just want to get it over with.

We also have booked some stuff for New Zealand.  One day, we are doing an ATV tour in some national park I think.  Another day is a Lord of the Rings tour where you get to see (on ATVs again) all the places that were in the movie, since it was filmed in New Zealand.  I've never seen the movies so I might have to check them out on the plane flight.  We also booked a boat tour as well.  Right now, it's going to be me, John, Kemal, Potts, Chad and Buttons doing all this stuff, but Jillian, Corinna adn Rachel may jump in on some of them.

-Tim