As I reflect back, I realize I am three days from halfway through my internship and I am just now getting around to writing about the beginning of my internship.
On August 18th at 8 am, there was a very long line in front of Carnegie Plaza full of parents, family, friends, and college program students (later to be more fondly known as "CPs"). We filled out paperwork, more paperwork, and then more paperwork, and receiving tons of literature to read, as well.
When I moved into apartment 420, there was only one person who was there before me, though she wasn't in the room. I plopped my stuff down in the bed next to hers (of course I was going to take the double bedroom with the bathroom inside), which left the triple with the bunk and windows for walls left to be occupied. As we worked through the chaos known as 250 people (plus their trust siblings, friends, and parents) moving into an apartment building with no units on the ground level and only two elevators and two flights of stairs, we eventually got a full house. Tricia, from Texas, rooming with me, while Jena from Cal Poly and Erin & Nickole (best friends since kindergarten) from Napa, occupied the triple.
After getting as settled in as we could for the day, we set out for food (at around 11 pm)...we discovered that right by our apartment building was an Indian restaurant, an Italian restaurant, a doughnut shop, a Starbucks, a Subway, a Vons, a nail salon, a CVS, a burger king, a Japanese restaurant, a Filipino restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a flatbread sandwich & pizza place, a frozen yogurt place, a fed ex kinkos, and a teriyaki bowl restaurant called flamebroiler all right next to our apartment....and we also have a weekly local craft fair and farmers market every Thursday...so basically, we discovered we have a lot of options.
It was the beginning of an adventurous journey...
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