Final week

So it's my final week in Arizona, 40 down, 1 to go before flying back to the UK. Jeez, how time has flown!

Last weekend was the first laid-back succession of days in a long time - beers and food round a friends house friday night, crazy golf saturday and tidying/packing on sunday all punctuated by playing guitar to Green Day's live DVD, Bullet in a Bible rather loudly. This week should be equally fun. I have one exam on tuesday in structural geology which should be a breeze and then thats it. Wednesday we may be heading down to Nogales in Mexico for a day just to grab some photos, souvenirs and a legal drink of beer for the first time in 9 1/2 months! Thursday is party day/night and friday is Metallica, all should be good!

As normal, the grades come in from Arizona loads faster than they do in the UK - I already have one module back (A) and should get the rest this week. Kind of puts Leicester to shame really, it takes months there!

In the news today, a M7.8 earthquake hits the South-western Chinese province of Sichuan killing atleast 8500 but the death toll is expected to rise sharply. China has a long history of earthquake activity owing, on a broader scale, to it's unfortunate position between the gravitationally collapsing Tibetan Plateau and the subduction zones of the western Pacific. Some of the largest and deadliest earthquakes ever recorded have been known to strike China killing in excess of 500,000 people. The largest recorded earthquake, however, was a M9.5 shock to hit central Chile in 1960, closely followed by the M9.2 Andaman Islands Earthquake which triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

S'all for now folks! Laters!