Quick Quick!!

Hey! Casey and Janelle are posting finally. Scroll down to read their posts. Im glad to have them around this dusty old place.

Today passed in a jiffy. I spent the night at a friends house, we walked around the mall today, and then I came home and packed to the max. For once, all my luggage is packed the night before, and I packed up alot of my house stuff so I dont have to rush to move when I get back.

Its insane how I cant really think about how I am going to Greece tomorrow. I honestly still dont grasp the fact, and probably wont until I am on greek soil chomping on some pita and hummus or something. This trimester went by all to fast and now its down to the end.

Some things I have learned this trimester:

1. I CAN wake up at 530 each morning if I know that I will get fired if I dont.

2. Friends and family are amazing and I love them all for supporting me.

3. Patience is a virtue. haha.

4. Love Love Love. Love people. Love people that you dont like. Love people that dont love you. Love annoying people and people that try to under cut you.

5. On Christ the solid rock I stand.

6. I am capable of more than I thought generally..

7. Always save your work on a thumb drive. Always.

8. Friends always come out of the wordwork and are people you never expected.

9. AAA has more than 80+ products and services. hehe.

Im rambling on. But real quick. Ive decided to dedicate this summer to apologetics, learning more about other religions, and getting to know as much of the Bible as possible. Lately I have had so many conversations about religion and God, and I am often frustrated at my lack of knowledge. If anyone has any reading material to suggest about any religion, evangelism, christian theology, or apologetics.... please let me know!

kgood night. And Greece, here I come, literally. Be back on the 17th! God Bless and leave me some love!

Happy Mothers Day too my mom as well<3

-Alissa-

Oh AAA, and pics

With tomorrow being the last day at AAA, things are winding down. We had our huge presentation this afternoon, speaking in front of top execs at AAA Southern New England, alot of marketing people, HR people, travel people, you name it. It was basically a project about helping AAA SNE get into the young professional market 21-35 year olds, and creating an event that brings them all together.. Its more complex than that sounds.. But it was awesome. They told us that our presentation was the best one in at least 2 years of interns. (which is how long the program has been running I think.. haha.) I love AAA the most because I feel like I got the most real world experience out of it, as well as the fact that each and every single employee there treated us interns with respect, from the front door man to the head person of the club.

Well.. enough about that.. here are some pics:

From top left going clockwise: Bill Southerland- a super top head guy at AAA SNE, Vivien, Chimene, Me, Latoya, TA Meghan, and Professor Tremblay.

We got some super cool AAA swag as a parting gift=)

Someone stole my lunch today at AAA. Straight up from the cafeteria fridge. Heh really? yeah it was from Whole Foods too. People are absurd. But thats ok.

So GREECE. 2 more days before I leave on Saturday, May 9th-17th. For those who are not familiar with this- I am going as a part of my Travel Internship through JWU. It is what every travel intern gets to do, and its not just a happy good time vacation either. We each have a day that we thoroughly run from sun up to sun down, we plan everything, make sure people are awake in the morning, getting on the right bus to the right place, know where we are eating for our meals.. where to shop, maps, communications, money stuff, educational stuff.. Its hard core. Yes this trip is fun, but its also some work involved too. All of us interns, there are about 20 of us this trimester, are so excited because we have been waiting since our freshmen year to do this. We have also slaved away for the past 10 weeks at our different rotations- from AAA, Collette Vacations, State House, Airport.. and all our hard work gets rewarded with this awesome treat. YAY!

Something else that is awesome- I am officially moving on May 20th into a new apartment!!!  (If I sit out in my current apartment in my kitchen at night I can watch a whole family of mice trample back and forth across the floor. Its cute. NOT.)

...More about the new place coming soon.

Praise GOD ALMIGHTY LORD!!! 

Real Quick to all my friends and family who read this- I promise that I will become a person again after May 17th. I feel completely awful for my lack of communication with so many of you since beginning of March, but its been so difficult to talk to everyone I want to talk to, with intense practicum hours, work study, different leadership obligations, side projects, and apartment hunting. Please forgive me, and keep me in your prayers! I love you and miss you all.

Greece! HERE I COME!

Life Update...

Man oh man. Life is crazy these days. I am now in the part of my education at JWU called Practicum, and its basically an intensive work sampling throughout the whole trimester. There are about 20 other students in this program, we get to wear awesome suits, and 4-5 rotations to choose from. I was lucky enough to get all my first choices, which would be Collette Vacations, AAA Southern New England, and T.F. Green Airport. Monday through Friday 9-3 I get to rotate through each of these locations and see if its something I want to pursue in my future. The first week seemed a huge sleepover party, we had orientation, and the 20 others in the class are girls I have known since freshman year and have taken all major classes with, so we are like a big family. And there is only one boy! He is lucky. haha.  

At the end of the trimester, we all go on a FAM trip (familiarization tour), where we get to plan and carry out each day of the tour, just like a real tour guide! The professors wait until the first day of the trimester to tell the group where they are going, even though we have been trying to get the destination out of them since day one of our freshmen years. haha. (Last year I accidently found out early for the spring trimester kids and told them where they were going months before they were supposed to know. And they were not happy. hahaha)  

WE ARE GOING TO GREECE! Ok. No joke. GREECE. for 9 days. in May. Now, Greece is never somewhere I would have ever thought of traveling, I guess it wasnt on my list of top desired places to see, but I am NOT complaining. The school pays for it. And I am a travel major. I want to travel everywhere. And the more I research it, the more excited I get. The group of kids Im going with are definitely the off the beaten path kind of travelers, so I hope we get to experience the real Greece, not only the touristy stuff. 

This week is a little more intensive. I am working at Collette Vacations in the Air department. Collette is one of the worlds largest and best tour operators, offering travel to all continents, and they have 4 major offices around the world with 500+ employees. I dont do anything that exciting, but I have been working on some ticketing and accounting projects dealing with the multiple airline contracts that Collette has. It's crazy the amount of business that they give to airlines such as Delta or British air.

Its only week 2, but it has gone by very quickly, and I am very tired. In order to be on time, I have to be out of the house by 730am, and I dont usually get back until 4pm, not counting if I have something I need to do after, which might mean I dont get home until 1030. So its a long day. I know how my parents feel.  Its especially tough because one absence means you are automatically dropped from the program. We all know about my issue with absences, last trimester I missed about 8/16 classes for Botany (passing gloriously might I add).. But still. I am working hard to keep myself in line.

I feel bad, because I have not really talked to anyone from home indepthly. Its also hard because I am trying to find a new apartment, as well as being a leader for Christian Student Fellowship, and my workstudy job that I havent even been to since this new tri started. Pretty sure I dont even have time to think... Let alone hang out or something. 

I am coming home for Easter, which will be one of the last times I will be home for a while I think. Maybe not until next thanksgiving... I am really excited to be home and see everyone, and have sleepovers in the basement and take Kodey for a walk and see my sister. And I miss Janer and Casey and Bryan. Seriously, Im emo thinking about it. 

Ok I need to sleep right now. I am exhausted.