Best faculty in the world :)

Hi everyone! :)

Today I’ll show you some photos and write a promised post about my faculty of biology – why do I love it so much. Recently we had many excursions (while it’s still warm outside), so I’ll tell you a bit about them (or at least I’ll try, cause something’s wrong with the internet today, it shows just Latvian web-pages without any problems).

So, our first excursion was to the zoo :) We had some kind of orienteering there, as we had to find animals from different parts of the world and fill a list. Of course, I was just taking photos :D

On my way to the zoo

Manul ^^ So cuuute ^^

Kookaburra doesn't laugh! We were trying to make it laugh for almost an hour :D

Zebras

Owl

Cute tapir and hippo ^^

Love this frog ^^

Aquarium

Aquarium once again

At the evening we went to our Museum of Nature with another teacher to see different mushrooms and have a lecture about them :D Was interesting, but it seems like almost all of them are edible – I would never pick anything like them. And there also was a director of truffle center in Finland (juvatruf.fi), he told us about truffles a bit, was interesting :) A day before me and my friend Zane also worked at this exhibition (we were changing old mushrooms to a fresh ones). And people asked so many questions, I didn’t even know what to answer!

At least these ones are poisonous :D

And these are edible...

These ones too :D

It would be a tasty sauce from these ^^

Giant puffballs

Part of exhibition

Last week we also had a lecture about mushrooms in the forest. At first saw many poisonous and touched them, later ate some edible (touching them with unwashed hands :D ). But a woman, who was telling about them (she’s the best mushroom specialist in Latvia) told us that it’s possible to die only from Amanita phalloides and Amanita virosa, others are not so poisonous, you must eat very much (and she even tried one poisonous mushroom :D ). Biologists are funny people :D

Mycena epipterygia

This is a very beautiful mushroom

We also had a lecture at the Botanical garden, this time I also took some pictures inside tropical and palm house. And again – at first we touched some poisonous plants, and then ate edible fruits without washing hands :D

Victoria cruziana (with very small leaves :( )

Cacti :)

Other beautiful succulents

Dahlias

And at the end some other photos. We noticed that every morning many crows in our district are sitting on wires and waiting for sunrise. And at the evening they sit there again and watch sunset (they even turn to the right side). So my dad woke up at 5 a.m. on Saturday and went to take some photos.

How do they know, where and when the sun will rise?

Sunrise

And last Saturday I was supposed to go to my friend to celebrate her Name day, but instead of this I went to Alfa shopping center to meet Latvian racing driver Haralds Šlēgelmilhs ^^ He will take part in formula-2 race in Monza this weekend, so in Sportland shop was a formula-3 car and it was possible to take Harald's autograph and ask some questions to him.

Of course, I had to have a photo :)

Formula-3 car

And that's all for now, I must finally go and finish my work about lichens :)
Have a nice day! ^^

Photopost: Giraffe Day at Riga Zoo ^^

Heeey! ^^

I guess, I'm now going to our zoo too often, because today I was there again :D But today there was a big event - our zoo (sponsored by Viasat Nature TV channel) bought scales, on which they can now weigh animals up to 3000 kg. And today the big secret of our zoo was revealed ^^

Usmi, Piks, Periskops & Kimi ^^

TV commercial about Giraffe Day ^^

If it will go on like that, my blog will turn into some kind of memorial book. Not a long time ago (8th of September) I wrote here about Lokomotiv. Last time (17th of October) I just didn't want to make this day bad and didn't write anything about Dan Wheldon. But today I can't stay silent.

Marco Simoncelli. 24 years old. MotoGP racing driver. He left us yesterday, during the race at Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia, at 16:56 local time.

I mentioned Dan Wheldon before. He was killed at 16th of October in a racing accident in IndyCar ar Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where 15 cars were involved. He was 33 years old. I came home at Monday and found out about this crash. And I couldn't stop crying, even though I never saw Dan racing and didn't hear about him very often.

But Marco I knew very good. I was watching MotoGP since summer 2008. And that year Marco became World Champion in 250cc class. I remember this day like it was yesterday - everyone was so happy, especially Marco. He was the person I liked since the first time I saw him. Russian commentators called him Dandelion. And since that day me too. In 2010 he came to 500cc (MotoGP) class, and of course couldn't drive as fast as in 250cc, but I believed in him. In 2011 I stopped watching MotoGP, because many races overlapped with F1 and I couldn't follow so many of them. And also I saw crash of Shoya Tomizawa during the race at 5th of September, 2010, and it was also fatal. Shoya was 19 years old. And I didn't want to watch it anymore.

Yesterday I was sticking leaves of trees for my herbarium, and my dad started to read a piece of news. That MotoGP race at Malaysia was stopped after an accident involving Simoncelli, Edwards and Rossi. Nothing happened to Rossi, Edwards was injured with a dislocated shoulder, but Simoncelli... `No..` - I thought, because I already understood what happened and didn't want to hear it. `..but Simoncelli died because of his injuries`. `Marco's dead? No, no way, that just can't be true!` - I whispered. `I will never believe it!` But I should believe. It seems so unreal.

And yesterday I also found out that at 9th of October Russian ski jumper Pavel Karelin died in a car accident. He was 21. I actually never realized that he was so young. Because I'm often watching ski jumping in winter, and Russian commentators mention him so often as a really good and perspective jumper. And he's been participating in world cups since 2007. By the way, four days before this accident I saw ski jumping in my dream, although I never dreamed about it before, and it seemed a bit strange. Seems that it really was.
Three Sundays of October. I really don't want to think about this one.
Sorry about this messy and emotional post. In few days I'll try to write something more positive, about my B-day, Bio-night and so on.
And finally one of my verses, related to this situation. It's in Latvian, but I translated it in English. As it's long, just press Uzzināt vairāk » to read it.