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Published on 23 May 2007 in Journal and Memorable. 2 Comments Tags: Memorable, mount kilimanjaro, nostalgia, photography, tanzania.

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This essay is--provided I am remembering this correctly--a combination of materials that I wrote in Tanzania in 2001 and some that I wrote in later months after I was back in the U.S.

The Final Ascent

My account of the journey from Kibo Hut (4,703 m) to Uhuru Peak (5,895 m) and back begins with part of the (unfinished) journal entry that I wrote on the fifth day of the climb:

“12 July 2001, Mt, Proscar used for. Kilimanjaro, Horombo Hut, below 4,000 m: Today has been a seriously long and tiring day. Proscar blogs, Last night at 10:40, I was awakened and told to prepare. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, This is what I wore: one pair of silk thermal underwear (top and bottom), three pairs of socks (one cotton, two wool), one pair of hiking boots, one pair of lightweight hiking pants, one pair of heavy hiking pants, one Project Tanzania T-shirt, one Project Tanzania sweatshirt, one ski jacket with Polartech lining, one ear band, one bandana, and one pair of gloves. Can you believe that I still got cold.

At 12:30 we finally set out up the trail from Kibo to Gilman’s Point (5,681 m) in the cold, windy night, buying Proscar online over the counter. We walked uphill in a single file line through volcanic dust and rocks for about twenty minutes (just a guess) before Amanda stopped from stomach cramps. She tried again but got stopped, and then we passed her. The road was cold, tough, and sometimes treacherous, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. Every step had the potential to make you slide backwards to a point further back than the one you began at. Proscar pharmacy, Luckily, though, the moon was just past half full so it lit the way nicely. It was bright enough that I had a shadow. I was near the front of the line, especially further on, Proscar online cod. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, We climbed for what seemed like forever. It took well over an hour just to pass William’s Point (5,000 m).”

The guides did their best to keep us in high spirits. Back in Monduli, Freddy had entertained us with his impression of a minister preaching. Proscar maximum dosage, When he paused, everyone would join in, yelling, “Hallelujah!” and “Salvation is coming!” We'd continued this during our earlier climbs, and now the guides would yell, “Hallelujah!” and we would yell it back, Proscar alternatives. They knew that if someone didn’t answer, then that person was getting sick.

“Every once in a while, at the beginning, when I was feeling particularly optimistic, I’d look up and see this rock formation above us, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. Ahh, I thought, Proscar forum, this must be Gilman’s Point. I knew that their seven hours was a lie. It took so long to reach it. I felt like the victim of a practical joke where someone had laid money on the street and every time I bent to pick it up he jerked it further away. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, When we finally reached the rocks and sat down, I was so cold that I couldn’t feel my fingers, toes, nose, or lips. ‘Congratulations,’ someone said as they shook my hand, Proscar samples, ‘you’ve made it halfway.’

‘What?!’ I wanted to scream. I satisfied myself with nodding numbly because I was out of breath. After sitting for a few moments I asked about the time. I was too tired and cold to take my glove off and check myself. ‘3:30,’ was the reply, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. Where can i order Proscar without prescription, Oh God, this can’t be happening to me. My face felt like it was burning. ‘Is it a bad thing when your face is burning?’ I asked.

‘You’re probably just windburnt. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, Put on a scarf,’ Jon told me. What scarf, Proscar reviews. The wind was bitter cold and went straight through my gloves. I kept switching back and forth with my hiking stick while putting my other hand in my pocket. And my nose… It was running like a leaky faucet now, but it was also too numb to feel that. By this point, I was too tired to wipe my nose with my handkerchief (which made it cold anyway), Buy Proscar Without Prescription. Proscar dosage, ‘Mollel, how much longer?’

‘Two and a half hours. We should get there about the time the sun rises.’ I had to think back to Monduli and guess that that was around six. And off we go again. At this point I was so tired and cold that putting one foot in front of another was asking a hell of a lot. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, And I’m supposed to for another two-and-a-half hours up this Godforsaken mountain. In this dust that makes
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About this time an especially strong gust of wind caught me off balance and knocked me to the path. A nearby guide caught me and hauled me to my feet. I looked up at Maki’s back, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. We’d promised each other on the second day that we would get to the top. Proscar over the counter, She was struggling, too, but she was still taking one step at a time. What was it that I’d told Yumi earlier. Yumi, who was at the front being led by a guide who held one end of her hiking stick while she held the other, online buying Proscar. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, Oh yes, ‘whenever I feel like I can’t go on, I tell myself that every step I take gets me closer to the top’.

Alright, plant the stick; breathe in through your nose; put right foot forward; exhale through mouth. Again, on left. Proscar pics, Over. Over. Over, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. So I struggled up the crumbling path, out of breath, aching all over, and desiring sleep more than anything else, canada, mexico, india. The Hallelujahs fell few and far between now. Most of us answered in whispers that were lost to the wind. It was still dark and I was too cold to check my watch. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, I couldn’t remember the words to any songs to distract myself, so I started to pray. The Lord’s Prayer and the Apostles’ Creed rolled around in my head until I was coherent enough to compose my own prayer: Dear Lord, Proscar natural, grant me the strength to get through this until the sun rises. I know that you are always with me, even here on this mountain. Give me strength, Lord, to make it to Gilman’s Point, Proscar images, where I can see the beauty that You have created.

I repeated something along those lines a few times before I had to return my concentration to the breathe-step mantra, which was a sort of prayer in its self. Thankfully, God heard my prayer and gave me the strength I needed to last until sunrise. At this point, after hours of switch backing on the dreadful path, the route began an even steeper climb among boulders, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. Online buying Proscar hcl, And, to make matters worse, several other groups ahead of us were standing on the path, unmoving. So I was stuck on a steep, crumbling, Proscar description, dusty path with no chance of moving while the Arctic-like winds were busy freezing me one body part at a time. Our guides were yelling in Swahili, and, finally, Proscar from canada, the line began to move. Numbly, I moved forward, forcing myself up the hill. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, Don’t look up, Nicole, or you’ll see how far away you are. Just look at the path in front of you. One step at a time.

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We climbed to an area protected somewhat by the boulders, where we were sheltered from the wind, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. The line disintegrated as we all sought a rock to sit on. Mollel came up from behind. “Who wants to climb with me to Gilman’s Point?” he asked, fast shipping Proscar. Despite my tiredness, I jumped up. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, “I will,” I answered. It was as though the entire struggle of the past few hours was gone. I wanted to reach Gilman’s Point, Proscar photos, and I wanted to be there first. Mollel started up and I was right behind him. I passed him at the last bend and stepped up to the first peak.

It was crowded with groups of people trying to take pictures of the crater and photos of the sign telling how high they were, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. I was so happy that tears came to my eyes. When they started running down my face and freezing, I decided that it was better not to cry, Proscar results. We took the required photos before resting for a while. Then I hopped up. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, “So who wants to go to the top?” I got a few mumbles about getting to Kibo Hut in thirty minutes. Thirty minutes. It took us nearly six-and-a-half hours to get here, Is Proscar safe, and they’re going to be down in thirty minutes?

In the end, I was the only student who wanted to keep going. Tim, a chaperone, and Mollel were the only non-guides that went. We started our trudge down one side of the crater and around to the ridges on the other side, Proscar no prescription. Snow and ice often crossed our path, which slowed us down a bit, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. The head guide’s son was training two others on our climb, but I hardly noticed his orders in Swahili. I was at the front, head down, Proscar street price, shoulders bent, just putting one foot in front of the other. I would get to Uhuru peak. The adrenaline rush from Gilman’s Point soon wore off, though I was still determined that I would be the first to Uhuru, too, Proscar coupon. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, We came up on a series of ridges, and I thought: Ah ha. This must be Uhuru. You would think that I’d gotten over that sort of thinking. But no. I got to the top, Proscar from mexico, and there was nothing, only a path leading to the next ridge. Well, that must be it, surely, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. Didn’t those people say that it wasn’t far. So I kept climbing, but that wasn’t it, either, Proscar brand name. Glancing around, I
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Grinning, the guides congratulated me. We sat down to rest for a while. I couldn’t drink any of the water in my water bottle because it was frozen, and one of the guides had to open my backpack to get more, Buy Proscar Without Prescription. I dug a chocolate bar out of my pocket and passed pieces around. Tim was sick, suffering from altitude sickness as well as hypothermia. Before, he’d joked that he and Mollel would do the Maasai warrior dance at Uhuru. As we picked him up after the picture, he grunted, “Uh huh, uh huh.” Mollel and I looked at each other, and then Tim muttered, “Maasai warrior.” We laughed, and I turned toward Tanzania to wave. Buy Proscar Without Prescription, The second headmaster at Moringe had said he would climb on top of the dining hall and wave toward Kili so that he would see us at the top. When I saw him again, I told him that I waved…

It was past noon when I stumbled, hot and alone, into Kibo Hut’s campground. Amanda, who caught my not so triumphant return to camp on video, greeted me. I’d walked for more than eleven hours straight; I couldn’t see properly; and I was more tired than I could ever remember. But I’d made it to the top of Kilimanjaro and stood at the highest point in all of Africa. I’d pushed my endurance, both physical and mental, to the limits and been found worthy. Maybe the limping wasn’t so bad after all….

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Published on 31 December 2006 in Journal and Memorable. 3 Comments Tags: ego, Memorable.

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January

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Most of all I'm excited to see where life will take me. Finishing up my undergraduate career and jumping into graduate school made for an eventful year, and even more has happened in that time than I expected. There are a lot of wonderful things happening in my life right now, and I can't wait to see how things will develop. Happy New Year, everyone.

Commencement

Published on 31 May 2006 in Journal and Memorable. 4 Comments Tags: college, ego, friends, graduation, Memorable.

Now that graduation was ten days ago, it's really about time for me to say something about it. I've got just about all of the photos I have from the weekend uploaded. The weekend was a complete whirlwind of activity. On Friday night, after my parents and grandparents made it in to town, we went out to dinner at Anatolia Cafe with my advisor, Dr. White. That was a lot of fun. My grandfather could not stop saying how thrilled he was that I'd gotten into Cornell. I think he went into that topic about five times over the course of dinner. We had rehearsal on Saturday morning, and, in the afternoon, my family and I went to the Honors Awards Ceremony where I received a 2nd place prize in engineering for my poster at the research symposium as well as a departmental award for a student who "shows promise in professional leadership". That was quite a surprise. The other student who received the prize was a much more obvious choice than I was: he's been president of the Case student chapter of AIAA and has led the Design, Build, Fly team nearly every year. I, on the other hand, never even joined one of the professional organizations associated with our department. The only excuse I can come up with is that I showed leadership in class and such. Even then, though, I feel like that's more perceived leadership on the part of other students rather than actual leadership on my part. In any case, I was flattered.

My family had a chance at the rehearsal afterward to meet Dr. Joe Prahl, the head of my department. Prahl is perhaps best described as "a character". My parents still remember meeting him when I came to visit campus the first time. I think they were a little less freaked out this time around. Maybe. That evening my family went out with Mark and Jessica's families at Peking Chinese. As predicted, the puns were rolling. It was another one of those dinners that I honestly didn't want to come to an end. As I mentioned the morning of graduation, the day started out rainy. We all got our regalia on and headed down in the rain with umbrellas for the procession. While we were waiting in the line-up, the sky cleared and the sun came out. It turned into a gorgeous day not long before the bagpipes from the law school reached us. For the procession, all of the graduating students (undergrads, graduates, and professional students) start out at their school on campus, fully decked out in ceremonial garb. Different schools fall in together as they make their way in lines across campus. From Adelbert, the platform party, which includes the President, Provost, University Marshall, etc., leads the emeritus faculty and the faculty. These groups, followed by students from the law school, management school, and the school of applied social sciences, processed (also in full regalia) through lines of undergraduates. We had to applaud the entire time they passed, which really does a number on one's hands. Eventually, we fell into step behind them and all the groups made their way into Veale, parading past rows of parents and family members who were held back by ribbons and volunteers. Having waited four years to participate in one of these procession, I was thrilled and grinning the whole time. Video cameras were strategically placed along the way so that the procession outside could be broadcasted within Veale. All very exciting. Veale itself was pretty decked out. We made our way through the formalities: the giving of honorary doctorates, the key note speech from Julie Gerberding, and such. Hundert conferred degrees upon each separate batch of students, and we got to cheer a lot. There was a recession where the graduate and professional students left, and soon thereafter the undergraduate diploma ceremony where they actually gave us our degrees began. It was somewhat disappointing that I received my diploma from Dean Savinell rather than from Hundert, but such is life. They also didn't read my major--it was in the program--but they did note that I graduated magna cum laude, which thrilled my family to no end. I was the only female aerospace engineering graduate, and one of only two aerospace majors to graduate with honors! They had people stationed at the bottom of the stage's stairs to catch people in case they tripped. The person waiting on my side happened to be the professor who was my freshman advisor way back when. He's an accounting professor, so I hadn't seen him in quite awhile. I had just enough time to tell him that I was glad to see him again and give him a quick hug before dashing back to my seat.

After that ceremony--and its haphazard recession--we had a reception in Adelbert, which involved lots and lots of pictures. In fact, most of my Commencement photos are from then. I got to see quite a few people one last time, including Dr. White, Dr. Alexander, Dr. Prahl, Dr. Ritzmann, Chris, Tim, Lisa, Christian, and Michael. Of course, there were also lots of pictures with me with Mark and Jessica and my family. Really, I'm shocked at how many good pictures we got! The whole weekend was a pretty bizarre experience. We were all quite happy, of course, because we were graduating, but, at the same time, it was terribly depressing because we knew time was running out. My family ended up going back to the Turkish restaurant with Mark's folks that evening and having our fill of excellent food and company. We got back to the apartment completely stuffed, but nonetheless, we had to pack. I think my family may have been surprised at how quickly I managed to get things packed and ready to stow in the U-Haul they rented. Having done this routine a few times now, it's getting familiar. They left later, and I got to spend one last night with my suitemates and friends. I stayed up far, far later than I ought to have, given the early start my family had planned for the next day. But, as I was hanging out with Christian and Brooke and Mark and Jessica for the last time, I couldn't resist. It was my last night living in a college dorm, and there's nothing like that atmosphere for making friends and having fun at any hour. I didn't regret staying up until the wee hours of the morning, even when my cell phone alarm went off the next morning. At that point, I packed the last of my things and stowed them in Mark's car while he drove me to my parents' hotel. We both cried. My family piled into the van and drove off, making it back to North Carolina early in the evening. All of my things got stacked along the walls of the garage, and most of it has remained there. I've taken over the guest bedroom and have done a few things to make it my own: putting my own sheets on the bed and hanging my framed degree on the wall, etc. Mark is coming to visit for the weekend and is expected to arrive tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to that. I've spoken to Jessica online once or twice. Today she left amusing comments scattered throughout the Commencement gallery. Good times. All the same, I miss college and my friends and Case. Even though I look at the degree every day, I can't believe what it says. I'm officially a rocket scientist now.