Summer Sem and Palawan! :D

Tropical rain forest is nature's most extravagant garden. Beyond it's tangled edge, a rain forest opens into a surprisingly spacious interior, illuminated by dim greenish light shining though a ceiling of leaves. High above towers the forest canopy, home to many rain forest species and the aerial laboratory of a few intrepid rain forest ecologists. The architecture of rain forest, with their vaulted ceilings and spires, has invited comparisons to cathedrals and mansions. However, this cathedral is alive from ceiling to floor, perhaps more alive than any other biome on the planet. In the rain forest, the sounds of evening and morning, the brilliant flashes of color, and rich scents carried on moist night air speak of abundant life, in seemingly endless variety (Molles 2010).

A quote from the second chapter of our text for our ecology class this summer. Just, brilliant! :D
Am enjoying just how inspiringly poetic the text occasionally sounds in certain parts of the book. Am reminded of the popular science books of Jane Goodall and Richard Dawkins whose style of writing convey their common passion for the natural world. :>

--BTW, since I've begun reading our textbook for Ecology, I suppose I'd simply have to resume reading Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth AFTER the summer sem instead :< --

Really looking forward to the coming summer semester. Ineffably thrilled for my two courses: BI 170/.1 (Ecology) and BI 175.1 (Biodiversity & Conservation)!!! :D

My sched for summer 2011!

...and... am going to Palawan once the sem ends! Am eagerly hoping to apply whatever I learn from these two courses! :]

PS
Am also going to have to postpone plans of re-learning the violin and resuming writing by accomplishing at least a poem and a short story after the summer sem... all because I'm finishing up on an initial scan of our Ecology textbook! haha :)