Try as I might, can't keep the way the weight from my eyes..

I woke up this morning to the sound of all kinds of foreign and exotic birds chirping. It's so strange, because I don't recognize any of the calls. Even yesterday when our field leaders were giving instructions and telling us about the program I couldn't help from looking away to the strange sound that I didn't recognize in an attempt to identify the bird.

The sun was just rising at 6:30am here. I washed up quickly, put on my jacket and a hat and walked out to the beach. I call it a beach, but its composed of smooth stones and jagged shells, so it's not the sandy smooth beach you're probably thinking of, but it's still lovely. I walked out there in a slight fog and made out some other lonely souls on the horizon; apparently I wasn't the only one with this idea. I didn't walk up to anyone, figuring they would probably enjoy their quiet solitude. The tide was very low so I walked out about a half mile and dipped my hands in the water, which was freezing of course, and cleaned off my feet which were covered in dew and grass from the ecoquest lawn. On my walk back I bumped into my friends Kristen and Chris who were pleasantly awoken the same way I was.

I could get used to this.