July 25-31st

This will be a short one, I promise.

This week was basically a mix of classes, homework, exercise, and one of my new obsessions: the anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender (supposedly way better than the movie, I wouldn’t know since I never saw it, but I highly recommend the series).
Saturday I went to Jaz’s (new friend, president of the Tramping Club) belated birthday party, where I got to enjoy 21 year old, top-notch wine his grandparents had put away for him when he was born (pretty neat having grandparents that own a vineyard). Sunday I got out climbing once again! Back to long beach, but this time with tramping club people: James and Max (Jaz brought some others when he joined us in the afternoon). It was a full day of climbing at a different area on long beach. Got to practice my sport and trad leading, and work a hard route on top rope. Overall, it was a pretty fantastic day.

Oh and I learned a new method of belaying, invented by Jaz as seen in the picture. He calls it "The coaching belay"