My Summer Blog

Hello Everyone! 

I have decided that the best way to keep everyone updated on what I am doing way out here in the 'Michiana' area is to keep a blog.  Therefore all summer long I will try to update this blog with information on all my adventures and probably some random thoughts too.  I don't have any pictures yet, but I will take some soon and upload them as soon as I can. Please check back each week for new updates and please leave comments, I would love to hear from everyone!

My First Weekend

The drive on Thursday out here was long, but it actually wasn't too bad. With that said, I would not want to make that trip by myself any more often than necessary! The apartment is very nice and I have most of the furniture in there

 now, but I am still unpacking some boxes of clothes so it is not completely finished yet. On Friday Katie and I drove out to

 her sister's place in Chicago which was a 

lot of fun.  On Saturday we went to Ikea and did a long day of shopping. I don't think I have ever been to an Ikea before, so that was quite an experience! That night we played a VERY competitive two rounds of this gr

eat game for the Wii, Kabooki.  If you have ever played the board game Cranium, Kabooki is basically the same thing, but on the Wii. So you need to use the controller to draw, find countries on a map, and act out random actions like fishing, shaking maracas, sawing a log, etc. I got back on Sunday and did some more packing before my big first day on Monday. It was a great first weekend.

My First Days at Whirlpool

This was probably the second adventure of the summer if you consider my Chicago weekend the first adventure. The first day began as I mistakenly set my alarm for 6:45 am, when in fact I was supposed to LEAVE by 6:45 am, therefore I walked through the doors JUST in time at 8:14. After a long day of orientation I got my office assignment, which was actually in a different building, not the Administrative Center.  This other building is about 10 minutes closer, but in my opinion its in a pretty bad area.  The Whirlpool building is in good shape, but all the ones around us seem to be crumbling.

The next morning was just as interesting.  Since I was traveling to this new building, I wasn't completely sure how to get there, so I decided to just go the reverse way of how I came home the day before.  However, since the midwest does not know how to make roads, you can go from Main St. ONTO the highway towards South Bend, but you can't go from the 

highway back onto Main St... cause that makes sense.  So it took me about 1:15 minutes to get to work, and it was only that short because Katie was awake at 8 am and gave me directions to get back! I would like to tell you about all the successful work that I got done on my first full day, but as it turns out my boss was out of the office for 2 days, so I did not have any assignments yesterday.  Today was much better! I went a different way into work, which only took me 40 min. (75-40 = 35 min less!) Also, my boss was here today and he gave me my first assignment. It is a really cool project that fits exactly what I have been learning at the Kaneb Center the last few years. I will go more into that next week when I have done some more work with it, but basically it is working with Web 2.0 and Second Life. Tomorrow after work I am heading up to Katie's house for the weekend, and we are going to spend some time at her grandmother's cottage by a lake. So I am sure that next week I will have many pictures to include on here. Until then stay safe and go see Indiana Jones!