First day in California...

Well I made it safe and sound to California. At first I was a bit concerned when I tried getting my boarding pass for Southwest Airlines finding out that my ticket had yet to be paid for. So I contacted my Aunt who was setting up my ticket for USC to pay for my flight, and two hours later everything was squared away. The only down side is that I had to wake up at 5:15 am Central time so that I could get cleaned up, have breakfast, and be at the airport by 7 am Central for my 8:25 am Central flight. So now that I'm in California, my body still feels two hours ahead than what California is. So even though it's 10:30 pm Pacific, my body think it's 12:30 am Central.

Anyways, once I got into California it has been a bit unreal. As I was going to my Aunt's work office, we passed by the Shrine (that's where the Oscars used to be held at) and found out that the BET Awards were being held there tonight. So there were plenty of limos outside the building and the roads that go to the Shrine were all blocked off. So that was pretty cool to see that.

While here in LA, I've been asking my Aunt as to what all is involved with this Summer Semimar that I'm being a counselor for and it from what it sounds like I wish I was a student in this program. All of these classes that are offered will count for college credit as an elective at USC, and some of them will count as high school credit. Some of classes that students can take are photography, intro to engineering, intro to videogame programming, dance, screenwriting, and acting just to name a few. Along with these classes that these students are taking, the classes will then also go on field trips on the weekend. Such as for the videogame programming class will get to go to Electronic Arts (the company that makes Madden football and Tiger Woods golf games) and Nintendo. How awsome is that?!

Along with the classes, the students gets really nice commodities to share while they are here. For example, I just went out today to help pickup some LCD monitors and printers for the computer lab that they will set up for the students in the summer seminar. Also there will be Nintendo Wiis, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3s for the students to play with while they are here. As soon as I heard all this, right now this sounds more like a vacation than work. However we will see how I feel here in a couple of days.

Well that's pretty much it for right now. Until the next post.