Last weekend in July

This week I had Wednesday and Thursday off, I was so excited after working for eight days straight including IPNC, to finally have a few days to myself. I decided I wanted to spend some time with my Jared so after my exam on Tuesday night I hit the road and headed South to Eugene. I left a little after 7:15 p.m. and I had the most amazing drive. Once the sun started to lower down the colors of the sky were breathtaking. The dry hot air (106 degrees that day but only 95 at 9p.m. in JC) combined with the farmland made for amazing pictures. I wish I had been able to find my camera battery charger so unfortunately I was not able to take any pictures of the amazing splendor God created. So...I did a Google images search of sunset (and sunrise for my drive back to work this morning) and included them in to help give a scene of the beauty (most are not even of Oregon let along along my drive on Hwy 99W) The sky was full of pink, purple, orange, yellow, and all shades of blue.

During my drive back this morning (I left at 5:45 a.m. VERY EARLY) I was able to see the sky pinken up with the starting of the sunrise. Once the sun peaked over the Coberg Hills it was a vibrant shade of pink. These pictures can't even really express how pretty it was.


In addition to having a wonderful driving trips back and forth I was also able to hear some great songs on the radio, at some point I might start posting play lists of the top songs I hear. But for now lets just leave it that there were some great ones.

Jared and I went out to a brew pub (Hop Valley)we had not eaten at before and I had an amazing cheese stake sandwich and a pretty darn good sex on the beach for my cocktail.

On Wednesday I wanted to go get some Cafe' Yumm for lunch but as usual I took the wrong turn at the Delta and Beltline and ended up at the mall. But I remembered I had a gift card for Barns and Noble so I spend about 2 hours perusing the books. I did good, I made it out with only 5 books :) Afterwards I finally did make it to lunch. YUMMY!




I have started reading Julie & Julia and I am really enjoying it so far. I will keep you posted.

Wednesday evening Jared and I went out for Race Night at the shop. Good times with yummy pizza and wonderful girl chat time with Tracy. I loved being able to catch up with her, we used to be much closer but with life getting busier for both of us we have slightly drifted, but when we are able to reconnect it is wonderful.

Thursday I met up with Carrie for lunch and a movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past which was pretty cute




All in all the weekend was great. It was so nice to be able rest up and read good books while in the comfort of AC when it was 106 outside. Jared and I were able to have some good snuggles and talks and enjoy several good meals. However, now it is time to go back to a week of work.

Julie & Julia Update

I am so freaking excited that today is going to be a slowish day at work. I have posted before about the Julie & Julia movie coming out on August 7th, well this weekend I found the book and I am about half way into it and loving it. Then this morning I found the original blog by Julie Powell. I am just stoked I can hardly contain myself. If you want to nerdy like me go to the following link and then on the calendar go to August 25th 2002 to start from the beginning. Julie /Julia Project

Please pray for my headache

Today is my 8th day in a row at work, it is supposed to get to 103 degrees this afternoon, we need to strip linens off 294ish beds, bundle and count linens in time for laundry pick up tomorrow at 1 p.m., I need to study for an exam this evening for my soc class, and I need to pack for my two days off.

OH....and I have a migraine

Please pray that my head starts to feel better soon, I am really getting tired of how much more frequently I am getting these. Being dizzy, barffy, seeing spots, earing things, smelling everything, and having the room spin is not good when you have as much to get done today as I do. I have taken my meds but they are not really working yet. Hopefully they will kick in soon.

What a wonderful evening

After a long day at work I was ready to hit the hay, but to my lucky surprise Jared called saying he was close and wanted to take me out to dinner. He had been up East of Portland to pick something up and then spend the afternoon with Walt and Sara at the Steam Up in Brooks. For some reason I thought the event was in Albany and there would be no chance I would get to see him this weekend, so you can imagine my surprise and happiness when he said he was about 45 min away.

We went to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner


I had an AMAZING burger: an Avocado Turkey Burger with slices of fresh avocado, Havarti cheese, and applewood smoked bacon. Yumm Yumm

Not my burger, but same kind, I wanted to show how yummy it looked :D


After dinner we went for a walk at the park near the library in Mac. It was so nice to walk arm in arm in the evening breeze. We found a plastic play ground which had an amazing slide that twisted and turned all the way down. Jared tried it first but part way down he managed to get spun around, it was so great I had to get a picture on my phone.

We then walked back towards the van and read a few historical markers and right behind the Library we found a wonderful old wooden playground. Jared decided that bark dust was hot lava and was determined not to touch the ground the whole time we were there. We had a little plane/boat (not really sure what it was) and slides, walkways made tires, chains, floating wood, tire swings, monkey bars, ect. At one point I went over to the bigger tire swing and could walk there because I had "lava proof flip flops" but Jared had some trouble. He climbed up slides, jumped over castle walls, leaped to the fence and then crawled along it until he reach an area parallel to the support poles for the tire swing. The then leaped and twirled around the pole, rebounded and leaped to the swing. It was sure a blast to "play" together, he has such a playful and fun spirited soul that does not always surface but I am so glad that he has that trait. We just had a blast together.

Julie & Julia

I saw the preview of the movie Julie & Julia this afternoon and I am in love. I am so excited for the movie to come out on August 7th.

Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and Julie Powell (Amy Adams) are featured in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Written by Columbia Pictures

Yahoo's 100 Movies to see before you die

I did slightly better on this list from Yahoo (25/100 :D)

12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The 400 Blows (1959)
8 1⁄2 (1963)
The African Queen (1952)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow Up (1966)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Die Hard (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Groundhog Day (1993)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
In the Mood For Love (2001)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
M (1931)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The Matrix (1999)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Network (1976)
Nosferatu (1922)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
Rashomon (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rocky (1976)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Star Wars (1977)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Third Man (1949)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wings of Desire (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
The World of Apu (1959)

Time Magazine All Time 100 Movie List

As with the books I have a lot of movie watching I need to get on;
12 out of 100 is really bad

Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Bande à part (1964)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Camille (1936)
Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Crowd (1928)
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Dodsworth (1936)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
8 1/2 (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Fly (1986)
G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Ikiru (1952)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It's A Gift (1934)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
K - M
Kandahar (2001)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Command (1928)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Léolo (1992)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
The Man With a Camera (1929)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Mouchette (1967)
Nayakan (1987)
Ninotchka (1939)
Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
Persona (1966)
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Pyaasa (1957)

Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Star Wars (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunrise (1927)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Talk to Her (2002)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tokyo Story (1953)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Ugetsu (1953)
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Umberto D (1952)
Unforgiven (1992)
White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)

BBC Book List

I have a lot of reading to do, up to date I have only read 22 of the 100
must read books according to BBC.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (most of it)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Mom is Blogging :D

Well, not yet, but soon. I made my mom two blogs, she will have one for her personal stuff and then one for her cooking products (Demarle at Home). I am excited what she will do with them and how hopefully it will help kick off her side business as being a Sales Representative for Demarle. They really do have some great things, I love cooking with it.

Go check the blogs out!

Her main blog = http://susangathome.blogspot.com/
Demarle at Home blog = http://susanelaine1.blogspot.com/

If you want to more info on her cooking go to http://susang.demarleathome.com/


My mom ROCKS!!!

Dance your heart away

I have always loved music and the ability to move rhythmically along to it. God is so wonderful with how He blesses people with the ability to create music, I truly enjoy being able to get lost in the beat and dance my heart away.

When I was young I did ballet


Then moved to gymnastics



Then more ballet, jazz, and finally dance team in Junior High


In college I enjoyed dress up dance parties...

Toga


Halloween (I was an 80's jazzersiz girl)


A Jungle/Camo themed party


Gender Bender


Graffitti...(before the addition of a lot of highlighter marks)



Ocean Themed...I got Jared to dress up as my Prince Eric while I was Ariel


I even like to dance in my pj's


Dancing at weddings is always good as well


But I must admit, I am still a spaz, and when startled I fall down...


And now I love going to dance clubs to get jiggy with it, the Spur is a fav of my old roommates. We can sure cut a rug out on the line dance floor, and two step it with the cowboys

Little Rascals :D

I was singing an version of a song from The Little Rascals (1994) this morning and it got me in the mood. I do not have the movie to be able to watch it but I started searching for some of the wonderful quotes which were incorporated into the movie. I hope you enjoy the walk down memory lane as much as I am.



Buckwheat: Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts. You make me vomit. You're scum between my toes! Love, Alfalfa.

Uh Huh: Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.

Alfalfa: Then the clouds opened up and God said, "I hate you, Alfalfa!"

Buckwheat: Quick, what's the number for 911?

The Rascals: [singing] We are he-man woman haters/ We feed girls to alligators/ Our clubhouse burned down mighty low/ But we've got a plan to make some dough!

Stymie: Porky, you sure know how to make a sand-wich!
Porky: That wasn't sand, that was kitty litter.
Buckwheat: Don't worry, it's pretty fresh.

Stymie: I... Stymie... Member in good standing of the He-Man Woman Haters Club... Do solemnly swear to be a he-man and hate women and not play with them or talk to them unless I have to. And especially: never fall in love, and if I do may I die slowly and painfully and suffer for hours - or until I scream bloody murder.

Stymie: You only meet your once in a lifetime friends... once in a lifetime.

Stymie: You're not thinkin' about Darla, are ya?
Alfalfa: No, of course not.
George "Spanky" McFarland: Good.
Alfalfa: I wonder if she's not thinking of me, too?

And last but not least the one that started it all

Buckwheat: We've got a dollar, we've got a dollar, we've got a dollar, hey, hey, hey, hey.

How it all started....

I met Jared up at the Smith cabin on Odell Lake on August 10th 2007. However I should set the stage a little first. My cousin Joel had been living with my mom after he was done in the military and through the close bond formed between them and Tracy (his then future wife) it allowed for mom and eventually me to be invited up for cabin weekends at Tracy's family cabin. Mom went up two weekends before I was able to and when I was finally able to have a weekend off that corresponded with a cabin weekend she was the one who struck up conversation with Jared first. They talked for about 20 min and then she turned to me and finally introduced us. I started to notice him when I fell into his lap pretending to be a claw foot tub for a game of sharaides.

Jared out on Kelly's boat

Saturday evening Jared and I decided to go for a canoe ride out to Shelter Cove to see the resort. Once we left the dock we were sent off by a group of guys singing love boat songs...During the ride we talked about all sorts of things, we really had a great conversation. Later I found out that on this ride was when he decided he wanted to peruse something with me. A few days later I received a friend invite on Myspace, we talked a while online but once we exchanged phone numbers we have talked on the phone almost every night since.

Our first date was up at Alshea Falls, we planned for him to pick me up and then we would head out some where. I was so impressed, he had everything all figured out. He had even figured out where an additional water fall was near by so we were able to go cross country to find a different trail to lead to the falls. He and I talked so much during this time; about our relationships with God, our hopes for the future, some of our pasts. We were very real with each other, I felt very connected and excited about what the future might hold.

During the 2nd cabin weekend Jared brought up his canoe and we went for a long paddle around the lake. We left before sunrise which allowed for us to watch the sunrise up over Willimate Pass from the middle of the lake.



We landed a few times and hiked around, one of these times we sat and talked on a rock for a long time, after pulling on his sweatshirt string "just because it was there" he finally reached out for my hand "just because it was there". A while later we heard the boat rounding the bend into the bay with lots of giggles; my mom, Mamma Gail, and Tracy decided to come stalk us and see how things were going. Jared and I quickly hopped off our rock perch and scurried up into the forest. Hiding behind the trees was our first hug after I had fallen over a long...some times it is a good thing to be a klutz :D Once we decided it was time to go we got he canoe ready and started to paddle back, unfortunately the wind had changed and we were having to paddle into the wind in very choppy white capped waves. After about 30 min of paddling to not much avail a very nice fishing couple offered to pull us back in to our cabin. Once we got back from our 6 hour adventure we were pretty tired, so we took a nap on the couch while holding hands.

September 22nd was Joel and Tracy's wedding. With all the bonding with the two of them I was blessed to become close friends with Tracy, so much so that she gave me the honer of asking me to be a brides maid. The weekend of the wedding finally arrived, and with all of the planning and preparation involved Jared and I were very excited to escape away that night for a walk up to the railroad behind the cabin. We had been becoming much closer over the past few weeks but as I kept telling my girl friends and roommates he was the "potential new boy". During our walk we finally decided that we wanted to become officially exclusive with each other. I was so excited, I was finally able to turn my ring around (I wear a Claddagh ring from Ireland which depending on the direction it faces signifies ones relationship status). We walked hand in had for a long ways in the woods and along the rail road. We finally found a nice spot to sit against the hillside over looking the lake and stopped to talk more. While sitting there it seemed like he was about to lean in for our first kiss, but then a train whistle sounded and two trains ended up passing us. Finally it passed and we were able to snuggle back down with out fear of being caught by the drivers and getting yelled at. It seemed like hours of staring up at the stars talking though it was probably only a short amount of time. He finally leaned over and we shared our first kiss. The next day after the wedding my mom was so excited we were finally together that she requested pictures of us kissing, this started the long trail of kissy face pictures that Jared and I have started.

IPNC Time...

Well the time has finally arrived after months of planning and preparation. The 2009 International Pionot Noir Celebration is going to be at Linfield College this weekend for its 23rd annual event. Featured wineries will be from Oregon, Washington, California, Canada, France, Austria, Australia, and New Zealand and guests will be flying in from all over the world. I love communicating with people with accents and hearing stories from people who have traveled the globe. For about 3 days a lady from Bermuda was e-mailing me to get details on weather, travel ideas, and even clothing options, so crazy...Bermuda.

Our office works with the registration of lodging for the guests and volunteers for the event. We have at least 230 volunteers staying on campus, though more work the event but choose to stay at home if they live close to campus. Our normal summer crew of 38 make the rooms up and with the addition of 40 extra student workers for the weekend do the serving of the 800-1,000 guests (depending on year) and move the table/chair set ups around campus for each event which include the Grand Dinner, Sparkling Brunch, Alfresco Lunches, Salmon Bake, ect. The guests are able to partake in group activities which are both on and off campus. Off campus the guests are able to attend group activities of winery tours with catered meals and then while on campus there are wine tastings and guest speakers.


The table settings are beautiful...

Desserts for the weekend are always AMAZING




As is the food...


The Salmon Bake is very popular with the guests




And of course there is the WINE..



This was only half way into the weekend, by the end it was over flowing...

During the event the Matra D's dress in nice black sutes or black dresses, however as per tradition during the Sparkling Brunch on Sunday they dress with shorts and sunglasses.



I have worked for the last four years with IPNC during the academic school getting people registered and helping with planning and preparation, and for the last three of those years I have worked during the actual event where I get to see all the hard work pay off. Being able to finally meet the people I have been in communication with is a wonderful feeling, and it is even better when you see repeat guests/volunteers/organizers who you see year after year and build a repor. These relationships are great places to launch the social networking for jobs and travel oportunities in the future. I know several people who have been able to have lodging abroad in families homes because of the relationships formed with IPNC.

I will miss not being involved with the event next year, I have loved the past four years and even though there was a lot of stressful moments it reinforced the idea of the infamous Larry Southers..."You have to be like a duck; calm cool and collected on the surface but paddling like H E double hockey sticks under the water "