Hello all!
Well, I've made it over a month! As the days have went on, life has gotten more and more busy! Now with classes and internship in full swing I'm trying to find time to be with friends as well as finding alone time. The search is going well, and I am loving life. This weekend (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) I have been in a modular class. This means that a normal 3 credit class which would be held once a week for eleven weeks, is condensed into 3 days. We have been in a classroom since 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. It's been quite the weekend and I think we have all hit a wall of listening.

Other than that, life has been good. I really feel like I am in a groove of things. It is crazy how fast weeks go here. Class on Tuesday, intern day of craziness on Wednesday, internship classes on Thursday, and then before you realize it it's almost Tuesday again...where does the time go? Homework seems to consume my free time this semester, as it should. In my one class, we have to read anywhere between 60-80 pages of reading. Which is a doozy. Alas, I feel like my brain is beginning to understand these things that we constantly discuss. It feels good to be learning and stretching myself in the academia sense.

I feel like all of the interns are starting form a community which I am enjoying. It has been so fun to get to know who everyone is and what they love and what they don't. We had a "unity day" last weekend which is where our staff plans a day for us to just have a brainless fun day. It was a good time to get to spend with everyone ending with some ultimate frisbee in 100+ weather.

It's only four of us in our house right now, but there is word of three more moving in within the month. We are all a little shocked by this news, but it will be a good time. Lots of adjusting and figuring who's going in what room, but it will be fun to have something new. Our air conditioning has been broken for over a week now, which has been quite the bonding experience as this is the hottest week I have been here (97-106 degrees...fall). Now the weather is dropping down into the low 80's and high 70's which is pretty dreamy weather now to me. My friends are starting to speak of pulling out their "winter clothes" and "parkas". I look at them and laugh.

Hope you all are well and enjoying the beautiful colors in the midwest!! Save some leaves for me!!
Soph