04 September 2008

Surviving Week #1

My first "week" of class is over.  I use quotations because I only have classes two days a week. Ok, before you jump on this, realize that each class is three hours long and I have three classes on Thursdays.  Despite a long day of lectures and note-taking, my introduction to the social work classes I will be taking this fall was good.  In addition to the first week of school, I am also having lots of fun entertaining my first guest in Ann Arbor!  Before Kaela heads to Spain for a year to teach English, she was able to squeeze in a trip to see my new city and school.  After picking her up in Detroit yesterday, I gave her a tour of the campus and of course-my new bookstore and coffee shop.  Even though we were caught in the rain two days in a row now, I think she is much better acquainted with the U-M...and the bus system!  Tomorrow she flies back to Wisconsin and I won't see her again until late December when I make my much-anticipated return to Spain.  She will definitely be missed!

Tomorrow I am back in Detroit for a day of AmeriCorps training that will help prepare me for a year as a community organizer in my Detroit agency-oh wait.  I suppose that isn't a position with real responsibilities-right?  Glad to see my year of graduate school education is going to an imaginary career.

Okay, enough of my reactions to the RNC.  Have a wonderful weekend!



   

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Mom said...

Oh Caitlyn! Your ears must have been ringing last night as Dad and I watched the convention! You of course were the topic of discussion for a good part of the evening! Had you mentioned our gun-toting, moose killing VP candidate would not have surprised me. Best of Luck tomorrow with your ....... training! With all my support, Mom