Catch Up

Ok, in trying to catch up here, I only have a few minutes until we get ready for our inaugural ball so I'll do a bit now and some later. We have been getting up on average around 5 AM each day and today we had the lucky honor of getting up at 4AM to start heading to the inauguration. Needless to say, I am quite beat, but still really excited to be here!! This has been quite an experience.

Now, to back track a bit...

Day one with the kids, registration day, was probably the smoothest registration day I have ever experienced. Since this is my 9th trip, that's really saying something. I hope things ran just as smoothly at Kris's hotel! Like he mentioned before, being at separate hotels that are almost an hour apart does make things a bit more challenging to coordinate here. Meeting my new delegates was a lot of fun, and I was extremely happy to see all of them have done a P2P program before. Most of the students on this program are almuni, but there a few newbies here and there. They are a funny group of 7th graders, which is right up my ally since I so enjoy teaching 7th grade!! They were all quite exhausted by the end of the night... some traveled on their own from California, Illinois, Texas, and so on.

Day two... oh lordy... I need more time for that one... my delegate manager (a glorified term on program for our tour guide), is well... I guess the best way to describe her is smart with a large side of crazy. I will post some more details hopefully tonight after the ball! :)