First Week of School

It's a done deal! The first week of PA school is in the books. I passed my medical terminolgy exam...what a relief! 2 kids got kicked out...bummer. School is starting to get pretty intense though. The days are long and the amount of reading is ridiculous. My classmates are great, everyone seems really friendly and helpful. I'm still getting adjusted to wearing a shirt and tie to class everyday...I feel so grown up. 1 week down, 103 left to go!

Last Thursday we experienced our first flash flood. After I had gotten out of class it started raining really hard...wait it wasn't rain, it was buckets of water coming down. I had never seen so much rain come down so hard! By the time I had gotten home the water in the street was up to my shin, luckily we didn't have any water damage...whew!

Yesterday we were planning to go to the beach and get some body surfing in, but the skies looked gray :( so we went to Home Depot instead :) and bought caulk to seal the cracks and crevices along the bottom of our walls.

Today we went to go watch the Yankees play the Kanssas City Royals. I'm not a big baseball fan, but I had a great time. The weather was beautiful, we had our hotdogs & crackerjacks and the Yankees won in extra innings...what more could you ask for?

Michael Phelps just won his 8th gold medal....wow! Anyways, it's time to go study now...

New Yorkers!

Well, it’s official, we’re New Yorkers! Our place is looking way nicer than anything I had expected. NYC is starting to feel like home now. We haven’t been working, but things have been really busy and expensive. Recently I’ve been busy with a few projects around the house. I’ve installed 2 deadbolt locks, a peephole, screen door lock and a motion sensor light for the back porch. I’m kinda thinkin if I should’ve gone into carpentry?…seems like a fun job. Afton has been making fun of me for going to Home Depot everyday and aimlessly wandering around looking for new projects to take on…lol. I take this seriously! Yesterday we got a new GPS system from Circuit City. It’s pretty much amazing. It’s smarter than Google Maps and that’s near impossible. It sure would’ve helped to have had it a couple weeks ago. Our friends JD and Gerritt are coming out to visit tomorrow for a couple of days…it’ll be nice to see some familiar faces. School starts Monday and I have a big med. term. exam that I need to pass in order to remain in the program. To be continued…

week 2

All right! I'm not sure how this blog thing works. Will tells me it's easy enough though. We've been in NY for 8 whole days now and we are loving it. Our first week here has been busy busy busy! Getting unpacked and settled in. We'll have to post pictures of our new place. It's lovely here. We've been driving around trying to get used to the area. Driving in NY is something else. It always seems like rush hour. So everything seems to take longer than it should. And we keep getting lost :) There are no mountains out here to reference! We'll figure it out eventually.
There are so many cultures here. I think I am the only caucasian in our neighborhood. Our neighbors on each side are korean. And there are lots of jamaicans and african americans and I think some russians and hispanics and lots more i'm sure. So in that way I feel far from home sometimes. But it's exciting. We feel lucky to be here. And we just realized that since we haven't been working, we've been together almost 24 hrs a day for the last two weeks. And we haven't gone crazy yet :) which is good. Will starts school next week and hopefully I start work soon. So we're enjoying our time together while we can!! I think that's about it for now. Nothing too exciting. No babies :) no crazy gun fights ;) We'll keep you posted!! love ya'll