I've survived a week!

Monday again! This morning us girls in the house had to work with our small bathroom, lack of outlets, and lack of mirrors in our apartment to get to the Chicago Semester headquarters by 8:45. We wanted to get there early to get donuts and coffee before more orientation stuff at 9. We went through some class information--I'll be taking equivalents to Gen 200 (Arts class) and Gen 300 (Values and Vocations-Senior Seminar) at Dordt--and it looks like these classes will be waaay better than taking them at Dordt.
Classes are on Wednesdays. Mine will be from 8-10am, 10-12, and then a practicum group in the afternoon as a discussion group about how things are going with our job sites, etc.
Coffee and tea will always be served here on Wednesdays and we can bring our own lunch or make it in the kitchen here. It's a really nice workspace up here. CS is located on the 12th floor and has some nice views of the lake and of other buildings. It takes about 15-20 minutes to get from our apartment to the CS building on the Red line. Not too bad.
My COMPUTER FINALLY CAME IN TODAY!! Oh, I'm SO excited now. Finally I can be connected to the world and check my e-mail everyday and listen to music rather than watching the two english channels that we get in our apartment. This is a brand new leaf and I SO appreciate technology and music over TV and rabbit ears right now.
Okay, back to other stuff. I just had to vent my excitement there. I had to make my calls of regret to the companies I said 'no' to. Just four phone calls...but a few of them were hard to make because I knew they needed office help desperately. I'll be volunteering at one of the sites maybe 1 day a week and helping wherever I can so I hope I can help out there.
I'll also follow-up with some thank you letters to each company. I have to do that when I'm finished on here.
Dad, I hope you get to read this now--(Media-free week is over now, right?) you're probably itching to read all that I've done so far this week. Mom, I'm glad I'm not boring you! Nathan, I hope you're still keeping in touch with what we've done here so far. My roommate Pam is a Graphic Design student and she had some very interesting interviews here. I'll have to write more about that for you...this would be an AMAZING place to intern some summer!!!
More later...


aaand later...so we got cable and internet to our room...Robert Lea, the cable guy, is a fast little trickster of a guy. He basically conned us into paying more than we had to. We knew he'd do this somehow to us, but we had no way to be ready for it. The guys upstairs had the rates from online and they stuck to their guns then it came to not paying for more channels than they needed to get the cheapest rate on cable. Argg...they new the system from the inside, it seemed. No one in our room is really knowledgeable about that though! Anyway, we're going to call comcast and get them to reduce our silver package to a basic package--there's no way we'll have time to watch 8 HBO channels in different languages. Stupid.
The internet is great though. It's so nice to be connected again, with my music, with the convenience of e-mailing from a place that I can call home. So very nice. You realize how dependent you really are on technology when it's gone from you for a while. Kinda like this laptop and the files I had on it.
Until tomorrow...