Day 5

Week 1 is over. I made it through all 10 lessons. We have two 45 minute lessons per day. Remember the building where I got lost yesterday? We went back there this morning and I was given 4 room numbers to find on different floors.  This time I oriented myself just fine, and had minimal trouble finding the rooms (I did get to the building a few minutes ahead for some reconnaissance).


My suite-mate went home yesterday, and the rest of my group went home before noon for the weekend.  It is just me and one other student from our group here this weekend. Thank goodness there is someone else! I have a 7 hour drive to get home, so it is just not worth driving 7 hours Friday, having 1 day home then heading right back on Sunday. With gas prices forget it!

Lunch.

I went to the cafeteria for lunch, and picked up an extremely healthy meal. 1 slice pepperoni pizza, 1 crab cake burger, some cold noodle salad, a brownie and a cherry coke. I bypassed the salad bar, the sandwich station, stir-fry counter and the pasta station, and skipped the smoothie today. The cafeteria buffet will prove to be our nemesis here. The silver lining is there is an equally cool fitness center to work off all the extra calories, hence my 45 minutes on the elliptical machine last night. It does help we spend hours each day walking around for our lessons and observing other students lessons.

This entrance is about it.

My weekend buddy and I decided to drive to Lufkin today. Put it this way, Nacogdoches does not have a Target store, or a mall. Lufkin does. It was about 30 minutes away. We were looking for specific things. She needed a swim suit to take advantage of the awesome pool here, and I needed a visor (so I can shield my face from the sun, I brought my favorite pink MN Twins hat, but it is just too hot to wear for hours in the sun), bandannas (to put under the blindfold so it does not get all nasty from the sweat dripping down my face. Sorry for the visual on that, but remember it is 100 degrees here and we are out in the direct sunlight for hours everyday), and a car sunshade (so I do not burn my backside on my leather seats in my car...again). We needed to hit a Pac Sun for a swimsuit for my friend, and Target for my stuff. Well, the Lufkin mall was, shall I say, small. It was 1 level, and did not have a Pac Sun. I think the only department store was a JCPenney. We did the whole mall in about 20 minutes, and that included wasting some time in a Claire's looking for a hat. We found all the other stuff on my list and managed to make it to Sonic for their Happy Hour. Cherry Limeade. Good stuff.