Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Minnesota Playdowns
Good Morning from Playdowns!
This weekend I'm in Minnesota watching Alex's team playoff for a chance to represent MN at the Junior Curling National Championship. She had her first game last night, which they won, and has another game tonight at 7. I'll try to keep updating so you can follow, but updates will also be here
In other news, mom and I wanted to go to church this morning, so we did some research last night and found a church in the area we thought looked solid, got up early this morning and set out for the 9AM service. We get to the parking lot of this big church and there are like 5 other cars in the lot, bad sign we're thinking what could this possibly be like if only 5 people show up for service? Turns out, the early service was cancelled becuase of the holidays, so now were off to attempt the 10:30 service :)
Check back tonight for results on Al's late game!
This weekend I'm in Minnesota watching Alex's team playoff for a chance to represent MN at the Junior Curling National Championship. She had her first game last night, which they won, and has another game tonight at 7. I'll try to keep updating so you can follow, but updates will also be here
In other news, mom and I wanted to go to church this morning, so we did some research last night and found a church in the area we thought looked solid, got up early this morning and set out for the 9AM service. We get to the parking lot of this big church and there are like 5 other cars in the lot, bad sign we're thinking what could this possibly be like if only 5 people show up for service? Turns out, the early service was cancelled becuase of the holidays, so now were off to attempt the 10:30 service :)
Check back tonight for results on Al's late game!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Exam Week.....
With the arrival of exam week, I have banned myself from blogging so that I don't give myself an excuse to not study, but it's late and my brain is pretty much fried and I decided I'm allowed to write something short, just a little update.
I've been involved with a student org called Engineers Without Borders since spring semester of my freshmen year. EWB is an organization that brings engineering professionals and students together to offer free engineering services to underprivileged communities worldwide. At the UW we have teams working in El Salvador, Rwanda, Kenya, Haiti, and the US. I have mostly been involved with the Haiti team, but because of curling and rowing and summer stuff I have only done design work with the team, I've never gotten to be on the travel team, but Monday night I finally got official travel dates for our Engineers Without Borders winter trip which I will be able to go on this year!!!
Our team is leaving from Madison on January 6th, flying through Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti and then will drive to Bayonnais, the community which we work with. While we're there we will do a lot of surveying and other assessment work for a pipe bridge to be built over a river during the spring break trip. We have a lot of the bridge designed already, but need a little more information before we will be ready to implement the project. We will also be working with the people of the community and even running a health info session with some of our members who speak the language and giving out some basics like soap, tooth brushes and toothpaste. Then we'll return to Madison January 14th, just in time to chill a little before classes start the 19th.
I'm so excited to finally get to travel and thought I'd share that with you all :)
I've been involved with a student org called Engineers Without Borders since spring semester of my freshmen year. EWB is an organization that brings engineering professionals and students together to offer free engineering services to underprivileged communities worldwide. At the UW we have teams working in El Salvador, Rwanda, Kenya, Haiti, and the US. I have mostly been involved with the Haiti team, but because of curling and rowing and summer stuff I have only done design work with the team, I've never gotten to be on the travel team, but Monday night I finally got official travel dates for our Engineers Without Borders winter trip which I will be able to go on this year!!!
Our team is leaving from Madison on January 6th, flying through Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti and then will drive to Bayonnais, the community which we work with. While we're there we will do a lot of surveying and other assessment work for a pipe bridge to be built over a river during the spring break trip. We have a lot of the bridge designed already, but need a little more information before we will be ready to implement the project. We will also be working with the people of the community and even running a health info session with some of our members who speak the language and giving out some basics like soap, tooth brushes and toothpaste. Then we'll return to Madison January 14th, just in time to chill a little before classes start the 19th.
I'm so excited to finally get to travel and thought I'd share that with you all :)
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