Prior to this trip my ideas and thoughts about it were “scattered” I should say considering we were going, not sure what our plan was, and didn’t even have a set schedule yet. As things progressed throughout the last couple weeks of the class, I began to get excited about the trip and know that somehow everything would work out. We ended up with a great group of girls only and figured out that we had plans to go to the Capital, attend a rally, work with children with autism and down syndrome and we loaded up in a Tahoe to Denver. Now that I am here, this has already been an experience of a lifetime! The town is beautiful and it is sunny weather! All of us girls have really started to get along, making new friendships is great! Read more below to listen about how great it turned out!
This is the first day in and Colorado has been beautiful the whole time. The drive was long, about nine hours, but well worth the squeezing. Seven girls and seven bags and seven sleeping bags, can you say crammed?!?
We are staying at a local church in which we have encountered some interesting cultures already! We saw a Hindu religion worshiping and Methodist church this morning. Today we traveled to the University of Denver and did some comparing between schools. Their union is really cool (not as pretty as ours) and they have a bar inside where you can play pool, bowl, and drink. We checked out the rest of campus, it is really amazing. The buildings are fairly new and modern. From what I can tell, a lot of the city is fairly comfortable money wise and there is not a lot of originality or history in the houses across town. Overall my view of Colorado is great! During the trip we already went to the grocery store and got some valuable bonding time in with the group! We managed to only spend 100 dollars and calculated the cheapest and most efficient buying. This is a friendly place and it has beautiful mountains! I am looking forward to working with the Autistic children tomorrow. We are possibly going to check out the Real World house and fantasize being famous.
As I am in the journalism department, a few things I have noticed is that Dr. Pepper 10, which is doing a test market, is marketing in Colorado. This could mean that Colorado is a very generically based state and are picky in their choices, much like Kansas and other states in the midwest. The other thing that I picked up on, is that there is not very many Wal-Marts, just one, and the locals that we asked didn’t know where it was. We ended up going to it and it is arranged differently inside and is not as “friendly” as our Wal-Marts in Kansas.
Sitting here at the local Panera (which has a drive through!), enjoying this beautiful weather and the view of the mountains off in the distance!
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