Twofer

Wowie two blog posts in a row?? Sorry for the overload, I hope you’ll be okay. If not, give me a call and I’ll refer you to a great psychologist. Okay that didn’t really make any sense.

So, I can’t remember what it was I had forgotten to say last night, other than my plans for the summer. I think I will keep blogging throughout the summer so that my West coast friends can keep up on my Green Bay life (if they care…).

Last week, Aaron and I went to the UPS store to buy boxes. I can’t believe how much money they charge for some stupid cardboard. We bought three boxes (him two, me one), and figured we would just stick them in his car. Little did we know that we had terrible spatial awareness. The boxes had too big of dimensions to fit in the trunk, and we barely fit one through the door of his backseat. So, we jammed one in, them pushed my seat forward to put the second one in sideways. Oh, and we had asked the lady to tape them up for us to “save us the hassle”. So we had one box left. Where to put it? Well, I squeezed in the front seat, sucked in my gut, and we jammed that box in on my lap. I had to pee really bad too so it kind of hurt. But we made it back to school okay, so don’t worry!

So now I just have to pack up my box and my big ugly brown suitcase with clothes and items and mail them back home. I’ll be leaving a lot of things here in Spokane in storage, including my sweet, sweet computer and my precious sound system! I might die this summer because I won’t be able to play very many fun video games on my laptop. But, as I’ll address later, I will have a busy summer anyways so there won’t be much time for gaming, which is kind of sad. But probably good that I’m growing up? No, no…it’s mostly sad. Oh, and I finally mailed in my cheap camera and exchanged it for a queen-sized mattress pad and it finally arrived in time for the last week and a half of school! I’ll be storing that over the summer, too.

Now to tell you about my summer plans. After school is over next Thursday, Aaron and I will stay in Spokane for a few more days and see the seniors off at their graduation. From there, we are going to go on a roadtrip with two other girls. Aaron knows lots of people in Washington-Oregon-California (family and friends), so we’re going to try to make it as cheap a trip as possible by mooching off of his resources. Also, a lot of swimmers live along the Western states, so we will probably stop by and visit some of them, too. I think one of the girls lives in Washington somewhere and another one lives in California, so we’ll be bringing them home within the first few days of our trip. I think eventually we’ll find our way to Aarons house in (Placerville?), which is about an hour from Sacramento. We’ll spend a few days there, then roadtrip somewhere south to a nice beach where he has friends. Then we’ll head back to his house for his birthday on May 27th, and I’ll be flying home on the 28th!

As soon as I get back, my busy summer begins. I’m hoping to hear back from NWTC. I sent in an interest packet to them last week, so I should hear back from them by today or tomorrow or hopefully next week at the latest! I want to get into the CNA program that starts June 1st, and then I can take those classes twice a week with Joey. In addition, I plan to do a volunteer internship with the help of Saied, who is kind enough to create the opportunity for me. The internship will be in the realm of public health policy, and he will be giving me lots of reading to do so that I can learn about everything that is entailed in American public health policy. Very nice!

There are other things I would like to do this summer that are on the more fun side of things. The weather here is dreadful…it’s been snowing and raining STILL throughout the month of April. It’s May now, so hopefully that means the snow is gone. We’ve had some really nice days (up to the 60’s) but it literally snowed a week ago. This leads me to my emphasis on fun things this summer. Fun things meaning anything that involves being outside in the warm weather. I want to go to bodies of water and boat around, water-ski, swim, run, fish, and all that jazz! I want to spend time with all of the people I lost touch with this past year. All of this, of course, worked around the time that I’ll be busy with interning, babysitting, teaching swim lessons, and taking class. I basically want to do everything this summer, and make it last as long as possible while doing so.

That’s all I got for ya. Kthanksbye!