looking foward to...

Random thoughts:
So, number 1: One of my best friends, Lauren, is starting her FIRST practicum TOMORROW!! She got placement in a Harrisonburg public school with first graders! And Lauren IS Charlotte from Sex and the City... and she loves kids! The combination is absolutely adorable, I promise! And I am just so excited for her, so SHOUT OUT! And good luck tomorrow! Now back to me...I am getting the camera I purchased online TOMORROW and I am just so excited! I lost my camera last Spring and it was so incredibly woeful. Therefore, I have plans for keeping this one incredibly safe. And by plans I mean I am just going to be overprotective of it at all times.
Future excitement:
So, some of you already know this, but my friend Mia Harton and I are planning and leading a trip to New Orleans (NOLA) for two weeks this Winter Break. And today we got together at one of my favorite coffee shops in Charlottesville (Para Coffee) and chatted about the final details for our trip description! And the reason this excites me so much is as follows: Once these descriptions go up on the the Alternative Spring Break (ASB) website, interested participants will begin to sign up for OUR TRIP...hopefully! Anyway, pretty soon we will be able to read through applications of interested participants and choose the people that are going to be on our trip! And if you have never been on an ASB or AWB (Alternative Winter Break) trip, you get really close to the people on your trip! Its amazing how quickly this trip is approaching! This will be my first time in NOLA so I am really looking forward to this!
Fall Break:
One of my other best friends, Laura Albero, lives in Manhattan, currently working for Blackstone Group. Therefore, because she has been working SO hard AND because I have a Fall Break, I am going to visit her! October 8th - October 11th.. or something like that! I am so excited to see her again! And honestly, I am really excited to go to the City too. I sometimes wonder if I will ever live in New York one day. The idea of living there appeals to me, but I worry about the expense! One day I truly do want to live and work there though! Ok, so back to Laura. We have plans for going out in the city, obviously! And I hope her company is having some sort of 'night out' so I can meet her co-workers!! Apparently many of them are quite the characters! And anyway, just being able to catch back up with and see Laura will be enough for me. Laura is one of 4 of my very close friends that graduated last year from UVA. Actually, out of 5 of us, 3 graduated. But, one of them is on Semester at sea so she is not here this semester either!
Ok sorry for not really sharing ANY observations! Promise to make my next post something more colloquial!