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Alas!!! RGU has a climbing wall at its gym so I can finally start climbing again! It’s been far too long. Time to say hello to sore forearms...

I have a feeling I’m going to be spending most of my time with the Robert Gordon outing club as they have some trip headed to the highlands pretty much every weekend for quite some time. They also over some winter survival and wilderness first aid classes that I’m really tempted to take. It’s popular in Scotland to try and tackle the Monros, a Monro being any peak in Scotland over 3000 feet. There are a total 284 mountains under this distinction, many that are close in distance to one another so it’s possible to tackle them all in a few months if someone really tries. I definitely not in any sort of physical shape, have the time or enough mountaineering skill to try to do them all, but I’d like to try and bag a few at least while I’m here.

I came across this great little organization in Aberdeen called the creative waste exchange (http://www.creativewasteexchange.org). They take surplus goods that would normally be thrown out by local businesses and recycle it into basic office supplies like stationary, notebooks, pencils or whatever other items they can create from the materials they have. They then sell these supplies really cheaply primarily to students in the area, who pay a small fee to get access to the cheap deals. It’s run almost entirely by volunteers and I think this sort of group would be great to have in the Boston area. Boston is nearly 10 times as large as the Aberdeen area and they’re many more college students that could act as either potential customers or volunteers. There’s already the Massachusetts Materials Exchange (http://www.materialsexchange.org/), which gives businesses a chance to trade or give away excess materials that they have and I’m sure that they are many organizations already dealing with the disposing of excess goods as well as others that work on recycling old goods into new products. It would just be a matter of linking these groups together. I’ll probably start volunteering with the group next week to learn more about the organization and see if maybe a similar program could be started in Boston.

I think I got as close as I’m going to get to failing the Olin Challenge yesterday. I randomly ran into a girl who worked with Dylan for the semester while he was here two years ago. I think I’d call it failing the Olin Challenge to the 2^nd degree.