I love the holiday season! We already have a tree in our apartment that you can see from the street! The lights are up and soon, with the aid of brick-patterned paper, we will have a faux-fireplace to hang our stockings by.
But with the coming of Christmas it means the end of the semester and the journey up my mountainous pile of work. Right now its my 5th straight day in the library and I'm about to move my bed in. Tomorrow I have to submit, with my International Business group, our 30 page term paper on manufacturing bikes internationally from our make- believe bike corporation, Better Bikes, Inc. The country I have to analyze is India and I've been studying the culture so long now I can practically speak Hindi. This is the make-or -break it project for this class, but no pressure. Thursday is my last group presentation for my Sustainable Marketing class, which is kind of bittersweet. That was a really interesting class and I learned a lot.
My internship at Diversified is going well. I have almost mastered Salesforce.com and I am a pro at sending Fedex packages. But I really am learning there.
I got a new mentor today! I'm very excited. Her name is Jen Honick and she is the Director of Grants and Finance for Lackawanna County. She went to the University and knows Dr. Cann. I feel like this will be a great experience and that there is so much I can learn from her.
Thursday we also decided to have an apartment Thanksgiving dinner! Wish me luck, because I have no idea how to cook a turkey and I'm pretty sure it will take about 5 hours. This is the only way we can justify having a Christmas party on Saturday.
On Sunday was the Mass honoring the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador. It was a really beautiful mass and had a video made by students about what happened. It really inspired me to want to do my other tutorial on Liberation Theology, Latin America, and Archbishop Romero.
Toodles for some Noodles ( corny but accurate.. i need Ramen.)
Becky