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Well, hello again!

It has been a good couple of days! A little strange, but a lot has happened. The strange-ness comes only from seeing the Petroleum plant in this small, dirty town on the coast called Con Con. I went with my brother and mom yesterday and took a few pictures of the plant and the beach (shown-and I tried to rotate it but couldn't. You MAY have to turn your head for the effect). It was so strange to see the coast as basically a garbage dump. So much trash! It was really unbelievable. My first reaction was to clean it, but after a while it was just so overwhelming that there seemed to not really be a solution? But I am still working on that, because that is just really fucked that we do that to our ground. THE GROUND IS NOT TRASH! That's what Landfills are for, right? Putting all of our shit together in one place and burying it so it goes into our water and soil. hmmmmm. Yes, still chewing on this issue. Pardon the bit of the rant.

We were watching the Ellen show the other day and she had a marine biologist come on and talk about the declining ocean ecosystems. She brought out a few sea creatures and mentioned that the reason so many of them are dying is because of our trash. Go humans, go! fuuuuuck. Oh, and the plasatic wasteland in the middle of the Atlantic ocean is getting bigger-and has been for decades. The more we depend on this environmentally toxic material, the more our earth suffers. We buy FOOD covered in plastic? Really? Because it is convenient, or what? I really don't understand what it is in our mentality that says it is ok to keep using bags (and other commodities made of plastic) one time and then throw it away. AWAY- like maybe in our trash can, or maybe not- maybe in our rivers, lakes and oceans. Here you go creatures of the earth- here is OUR shit. Our plastic shit for you to chew on and die because you can't digest it, because your brains aren't developed enough to realize that it is not food, and in fact will kill you. You're welcome.

We have to change our habbits. We must we must we must. No more using, buying, or throwing away plastic. No more. No more. We cannot pretend that we are living without consequences. No more. We cannot continue habbits that we KNOW are bad for the planet- animals and other humans alike. We are all on this mass of rock and water together, and it is time to start acting like we actually care about that.

...... On a lighter note....

I registered for classes yesterday! I am already feeling very inspired to learn and absorb another aspect of this new place of mine. Also, I have 4 day weekends! No class monday or friday, so I can travel and take cool weekend trips! I have a friend, Caroline in Buenos Aires, and am looking forward to being able to visit! The plane tickets round trip are like $150 USD, so its pretty cheap. AND my host mom wants to pay me to teach my little sister English. Por supuesto!

Thanks for hanging in there, and remember to stay healthy and conscious!

Caio!