There You Go Thinking Again...

Slept til 10:00 again today!! Ahh, if only I could do this every day! I had to start using my brain again though, I'm going to have to get use to that, more on that later...

As I said, woke up late, but in time to get ready quick for the long walk to lunch. They feed us like crazy here! We are allowed 21 meals a week with our cards, that is breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week. Geesh California! I don't eat that much. Just ask my friends back at school I hardly have time to make it to dinner when the semester is going! Lucky for me some of the girls here have weird eating habits as well, so we plan on skipping a lot of breakfasts!

Lunch today was just as good as dinner last night. A huge selection with real food, like they give us meat, not cat food labeled 'hamburger' expecting us to eat it.  Its pretty great though, since a lot of what there is to choose from here is local grown organic, YUMM!!

After lunch Devan and I went to find a cute little spot to relax and read some of the many articles we are going to need to for this summer, during which time I made sure to sit directly in the sun and absorb some wonderful rays, something that I am sure I am going to regret tomorrow as my back is currently the color of the first color of the rainbow =)

At 3:00 all of the ARC Sally Casanova scholars (that's the name of this program I'm in y'all) met in the multicultural center to meet up with our mentors and get an idea of the work we will be doing this summer. I will be working with Professor Ann Taves in the Religion Department and a wonderful Graduate student named Kristy. Prof Taves is out of state this week so I didn't get to meet her today but I met Kristy and she is so sweet! I am going to love working with her!

By next week I should be able to let everyone know what my research topic is going to be but we haven't narrowed it down just yet, but its gonna be good!!

I cannot even tell y'all how much I am loving these people here! I am so lucky to get to spend the summer with a cool group of people. I have already told y'all about my apartment mates and some of my neighbors, and today we met Tanairi, Lorie, Joseph, and Julie who are other scholars in this program. We also got to finally meet some directors of the program, Walter, Roxanna, and Mario; all just super nice and fun people!

So like I said, they are really trying to feed us here. At this meeting we had all kinds of snacks and food, and then immediately after the meeting we were off to dinner!! I didn't really eat that much just because that's too much food for one day but I still had fun sitting around with everyone getting to know each other and joking around.

After dinner we were all planning on heading to the beach to hang out before it got to dark. Unfortunately by the time we got back to the apartments some of us were pretty tired and went down to nap. Of course by the time we got back up it was kind of dark, and you never know what kind of people you will run into on the beach after sunset so the beach trip was called off. No matter, though, a bottle of wine and some nice music in a shared apartment still makes for a nice night!  

These 2 months are going to go by too fast!!

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