Fill In the Blank: Life in the City

Even though I can only dream of where my next travels will be, that doesn't mean that I will let my little project die. In the mean time I am living vicariously through my friend Alex who is currently teaching English in the greater Paris region. Her website can be found at HABs75.wordpress.com, but as a word of warning she probably at least a PG-13 rating (though always highly entertaining). A fun fact is that she ran into Evan Sharply (Brady Quinn's backup quarterback) recently when she went out to the bars.

At the moment I am living downtown with my two dear roommates Kristin and Agatha who are good enough to put up with me. I started my (real) job on Sept 19 and subsequently went through 4 weeks of training. Two weeks were a combination of orientation sessions and computer training and two weeks were at a conference center nearby. I can happily say that all of the training was well worth my while and the latter training even allowed me the opportunity to meet people from all around the world. The way things worked out due to travel schedules and a bit of luck, American's actually only made up about 1/3 of the trainees. Long story short, they were all amazing people and I hope to visit them very very soon! ;)

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Just a few pictures from training

In the mean time, Kristin, Agatha and I have begun a bucket list of activities to do while living in the city. It includes everything from going to see Second City and baking homemade lasagna to throwing a Christmas party. Every time we manage to check something off this list I figured I'd document it here. Thus far we have:
Had a drink in the Trump Tower

Make Agatha's homemade lasagna (which I did not get a picture of unfortunately)

(Help) Host a Halloween Party

Make Pumpkin Pie (substitue for Kristin's Birthday cake)

And our most recent one, to have Kristin Run a 5k, which came in the form of the Hot Chocolate 5/15k

Next Up will likely be a girl's dinner in Chinatown and possibly making Christmas cookies!

Until then, things have been going well and life is good. It's been a hectic few weeks getting the hang of the new job in the midst of football season. This year I went to the USF, Michigan State and USC football games. The first game Claire, Nicole, Mary Liz and I actually hosted a tailgate.

At Michigan State I went to visit Jack's MBA friends for tailgating.

And at USC our family actually had one all together. Unfortunately due to training I was unable to go to the Air Force game although Karl flew into town in order to go to it.

A few other exciting things that happened between Europe and the start of work included:
A spontaneous trip with my mom and dad to the Epcot and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter