Day 33

February 21^st

Today has been a good day. A really good day, an “amazingly good day.” Two good things happened to me today. First of all, when I went to work at the DDC, I found out that they weren’t going to get funding from the Canadian IRDC for water research anymore. Instead they said all the money was in research for Energy and Environment. So the DDC kind of has to change their game plan for the grant proposal. This is kind of unfortunate for them, but it meant that I got to research alternative energy sources in the desert, searching for success and failures, analysis of maintenance costs, and whether not these kinds of power can be applied to a small developing communities. Basically Its right up my ally, and I really enjoy it, because I see not having electricity is the number one reason for their lack of development. I’ll inform you on my findings later.

The second great thing that happened, is that I was chosen for RA in Keenan Hall. When most people hear that, they wonder why that’s so exciting, because in most schools RA have to be enticed into taking the position. However, at Notre Dame, it is one of the most prestigious and important available, especially in Keenan Hall. It’s going to be awesome.