July 15 – Day 15

7:15 am. That is when my alarm went off. And for the first time in these 15 days, that was a false alarm. Today we got to sleep in after a night of ballroom dancing lessons and rock climbing! As I woke up at 9:30 am, I went downstairs to have a great breakfast and only two hours later, it was lunch again (which really meant that we got to have awesome Conrad Grebel food).

1:30 pm (oh wait! 1:25 Shad Time). We got to present the posters we made in only one hour about an entire week of exceptional workshops. I then realized two things. One, how we all finished our posters remarkably in such a short period of time. Two, these workshops ranged from Quantum Mechanics to mine, which was going out with waders in Laurel Creek and testing water quality along with collecting invertebrate samples.

Following the presentations was a two-hour project time, which is stressful since Demo Day is tomorrow. After dinner, two amazing guest speakers taught us the dangers to Oak Ridges Moraine, as well as North Atlantic Right Whales becoming endangered.

9:30 pm. We all met in the cafeteria to celebrate the birthday of two Shads. Happy Birthday Filippa and Alice!

Anahita Dehmoobad Sharifabadi, Shad Valley Waterloo 2012