Bonjour Everyone,
WE MADE IT!!!!! Jenna and I are officially are in New York. We officially got in last night around 7:30 pm. It was quite a adventure and I will fill you all in. Here we go:
The last post I listed I informed you all that I was going to go to the University of Minnesota to meet with the Director of Admissions for the Graduated Social Work Program. Let me catch you all up on what occurred.
On 9/16/10 (Thursday) I made my way down to the "U" (University of Minnesota) to met up with Kate Walthour (Director of Admissions). If you have never been to the U, well let me tell you, the school is FING enormous. Plus there is absolutely no parking. Good thing I got to the school 30 minutes before my assigned meeting because it took me about 25 minutes to find a parking spot. For several minutes I drove around the school to find parking, but I realized all the on campus parking you have to pay for. I was planning on being at the school for a few hours so I really did not want to pay for parking. So I continued to explore for parking and I never found anything. I gave in and parked on campus, $6, not to bad, whatever. So I made my way to the School of Social Work just in time for my assigned meeting (3:00 pm). I was meet by Kate and I spent some time with her. For the first 20 minutes we talked about life and she answered a few of my questions. Then she gave me a tour of the building and introduced me to several facility. During the tour, Kate introduced me to some facility and she informed them that I worked at DCFS in Los Angeles. All the facility were impressed with that. They immediately started asking me questions about how I felt about the Elderly getting involved in working/volunteering in Foster Homes/Out-of-home Care by providing counseling/support. I gave them my opinion and they were all very impressed. If you want to know what my option is on that, then email me or ask and I will tell you. Anyways, when I was talking, all of the facility sat down, took notes, and appeared really impressed. That made me feel quite intellect. I believe it showed Kate that I really knew my stuff and I would be a good candidate for Grad School. Shortly after that, I attended the Informative meeting on the application process for Grad school. That went well. After I went back to Jenna's parents house and hung out.
On Friday morning, Jenna and I went to the Minnesota DMV so that we can register as Minnesota residents, and get Minnesota drivers Licenses. We got to the DMV a little after 8:00 am right after it opened. There was no line. Comparing the DMV in LA to the one in Minnesota, there is no comparison. It is night and day. The DMV in Minnesota, you can go right up to the window and immediately be helped, no wait. Anyways, Jenna did not need to take the written drivers test because her Drivers License was still valid, but I needed to take the written test. I took the written test, PASSED, with 80%. I am now a official Minnesotian. We then made our way over to United Educators to pay off the rest of our car loan on the Subaru. That was successful and now Jenna and officially own our Subaru.
I have failed to inform you all the crap we have gone through with the moving company that has been moving our stuff from California to Minnesota. So if you did not know, the moving company picked up our stuff on September 8th in Seal Beach. The day they picked up our stuff, I was quoted that our stuff would arrive on September 12th in Minnesota. Well that never happened. Starting on September 12th, I was calling the company everyday trying to find our stuff. Everyday we were told that the stuff would be there the next day, then the next day, then the next day. Finally, Jenna and I did our research and found the company that we used was a Fraud. We began to flip out. At this time, we did not have our stuff for nine days. We were freaking out and planning that we would never get our stuff back. On Friday night, we were told by the driver that he would be at the house on Saturday morning with our stuff. We prayed that this was the truth.
Friday night, Jenna and I meet up with some friends in Uptown in Minneapolis for dinner. It was amazing. It was great to see them and catch up. After dinner we made our way over to Chino Latino. Got some drinks and continued to socialize. Around 12:00 am we made our way home.
Saturday Morning: The moving truck showed up. Praise God. All of our stuff was there and nothing was missing. Three things were broken but that is the least of our problems. I am just glad we got our stuff. So we unloaded the truck and packed our stuff away. This took up pretty much all morning. Around 1:15 pm, Mr. and Mrs. Quist, Laura (Jenna's sister), and Jenna and I went for a nice bike ride. It was very nice but it sure pooped me out. Once we returned back to Mr./Mrs. Quist home, I passed out for two hours. Much needed. Saturday night the whole family played a game of Phase ten. Then went to bed.
Sunday: In the morning, Jenna and I got all of our crap ready to go. We had a total of eight bags of luggage. Holy Crap, I know that is a lot. Plus every bag weighted a ton. The next thing we know, it was time to go to the airport.
Ok have to end short, I will fill you in tonight what happen next, Scott Riddell just showed up. Sorry in a Starbucks in New York City at 6th Avenue and West 56th st. Ok bye
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