September 29th was my last day working with the BLM in Lakeview, Oregon. \u00a0It was a day that I simultaneously looked forward to and dreaded. \u00a0On one hand, I would be returning home to see my dogs, my family, my friends, my home state – everything I love. \u00a0On the other hand I would once again be woefully unemployed, but such is the life of a seasonal biologist!<\/p>\n
The past month went by in an absolute whirlwind; I spent a week with family in the Willamette Valley, drove back to New Mexico, and began the job\/housing search for my next stage in life. \u00a0I was only left with interspersed moments to really reflect on what the past few months\u00a0were to me. \u00a0I didn’t want to phone it in on this final blog post, so I gave myself the time to digest my experiences.<\/p>\n
In many ways, this internship was one of the more difficult things I’ve ever done. \u00a0I was in a completely new, unfamiliar area. \u00a0The vegetation was completely different, the culture completely different, my job quite different from anything I had experienced before. \u00a0I didn’t have a crew-mate for a month and I had no idea whether we would gel and successfully tackle our sizable list of goals. \u00a0Pretty much everything was totally new to me, which can often make me pretty stressed at first.<\/p>\n\n\t\t