Week 7

Hello Friends! 

In exactly 7 weeks, I will be back in Iowa.  How incredibly strange is that?  I suppose that makes this the week 7 update! 

Last Saturday, Matt, Sarah and I made the half hour trip up to Boulder, Colorado, to visit the Celestial Tea Factory and for a day out of Denver.  It was absolutely amazing.  The Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory gives free tours and has a free tasting room. We spent about three hours there touring the factory floor and sampling tea.  I was on a pretty high tea high!  They had all different kinds and would tell you what to mix in it to make it even better.  After the tea factory, we headed to the pedestrian mall on Pearl Street for food.  We ended up at this pizzeria famous for their cookie pizza.  It’s basically a chocolate chip cookie baked in a deep dish pizza pan topped with ice cream.  Basically the most delectable thing I have had while here.

Sunday was a pretty lazy day.  I spent the day doing some work for my internship again before heading out at about 4:30 for dinner with the Schemmels.  The Schemmels usually take all Wartburg West Students out to eat their first week here but Mr Schemmel had a heart attack our second day here so we didn’t do that.  There were four of us that Mrs. Schemmel had not met yet so she and Jack took us to this awesome restaurant called Racines for dinner.  After that, I went downtown to see the play “I Love you, your perfect, now change.”  It was incredibly funny and gave me a night to myself to laugh and have fun.

Monday morning we had class and visited the Rocky Mountain Family Council and then I chilled part of the afternoon.   About 5 o’clock, an alumni came and picked me up and took me to her house so we could fill gift bags for the Board Of Regents who is visiting Denver this weekend.  I spent the night working on that and getting to know some alumni.  It was a little awkward, but over all a good evening.  Tuesday I was back at work.  BGCMD had our “big announcement” where we announced that we are opening a new club with a grant from the Anschutz Family Foundation!  The site where it will be used to be a strip mall where the community of Park Hill hung out but the mall was burnt down by gang arsonists in 2008 and has stood empty since then.  I spent the rest of the day entering entries for the raffle.  Wednesday I was back at work and the job for the day was working on more stuff for the Auction of the Youth of the Year auction.  I had to take the list I made last Friday and find addresses and phone numbers for all of them.  Quite the event.  Wednesday night Nicole and I went straight downtown because the class was seeing the play, “The Two things you don’t talk about at dinner.”  It was incredibly funny and nice to not have to sit in class for the night.  Afterwards, we jumped the light rail home and stopped at Albertsons so I could get something to help my bad canker sore J . 

Thursday was a big day and I made it a half day.  The Board of Regents visited my site in the morning and then left at 12:30 so I could head down to the capitol.  My religion class here requires us to follow a legislative bill through legislation.  My bill was being heard at 1:30 so I went down to hear that.  My bill was third out of 3 bills so It didn’t start being heard until about 4:30.  The first two were super boring and went super long so they had to rush through my bill.  We left at 5:15 and my bill got sent to a committee to decide if they can fund it or not.. So we shall see what happens with it.  After that, I came home and chilled. 

This morning we had religion class which was actually quite bearable!  We talked about the regents and then about what we want to do with out lives and what we are doing to get ourselves there.  It was really cool and made me think a lot about Youth and Family Ministry class and peer Helpers training.  Strangely.  Afterwards, I came home and got a package ready to mail home (have fun with that mom and dad.. lots of bubble wrap and duct tape J). 

Not sure what this weekend will bring, but I will tell you about it when it happens! 

I have a lot more work to get done this afternoon, so I should probably get going! 

Peace, Love, and Happiness!