Blogs from Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, North America - page 6

On June 18, ten of our ambassadors and eight of their parents caravaned to Raleigh for a voluntary field trip. That morning we visited the NC Museum of Natural Science. In groups and individually students viewed skeletons of dinosaurs and whales, walked through a butterfly atrium, and peered through foliage looking for the creatures that lived in the displays. We had a box lunch delivered to us in front of the museum and for dessert...chocolate covered meal worms and crickets of course. Yes, they were real bugs. This is an adventurous group! Destiny Askew, one of our student ambassadors, and her mom organized the highlight of our trip through her contact with Senator Ed Jones to visit the General Assembly. That afternoon we crossed the road to the url=http://www.ncga.state... read more

Ok, so here's my first travel blog entry, I'm excited to keep everyone updated on my happenins'. Andy and I leave for Peru on the 13th, out of DC. It's still up in the air as to how exactly we're going to get to DC from Raleigh, as it turns out our two main prospects got internships and have to work. at their fancy new jobs. Rideshare on Craigslist has turned out to be a disapointment, apparently not many people are looking to give two college students a ride to DC from Raleigh. It's beginning to look like we are going to have to shell out 50 bucks to ride Greyhound up to DC. From there We are going to have to wait about a day, so we can fly out on the 13th to Lima, ... read more

We got into Raleigh after a 5 hour bus journey from Charlottsville. When we got in2 Raleigh we trundled off 2 get somethin 2 eat as i was meetin my friend Hayley from uni, but she was drivin from greensboro so wasn't gonna be here 4 a while. As i was in the south i decided 2 try out some southern food. I had gumbo... which was pretty good. Not the feasts i was prepared 4 though!! After some scran, we headed up the capital buildin and waited 4 Hayley 2 show up. When she got here i was greeted with a nice hug and i introduce her 2 ben. We then had a game of tetris tryin 2 get our bags and stuff 2 fit in her boot... we succeeded and hayley took us 2 ... read more

Today was the first time in two months I didn’t even set my alarm. I had no where to be or anything to do until 1:00. So nice! I got up when Sarah came in to get something. This morning was the first time I noticed there’s a window in our bathroom- when I went to pee and saw construction workers. Yikes! Sarah and Kyle were making lunch by this point. I tried to be helpful, but it took several hours for my brain to boot up. Prossy came in, and I was just standing, not really even focusing my eyes, and she sent me to bed… then gave Kyle strict orders to bring me lunch in bed! I went and sat on my bed, but was doing work. Kyle didn’t bring me lunch, but when ... read more

Today was long. Kyle, Craig, Rachel and I went into town at way too early, where we dropped them off and Kyle and I went to get Ryan at the airport. Anne was supposed to come in soon, but it was almost 2 hours, so we hung out and bought toys for the kids. Ryan got them a remote control snake and tarantula. Very fun. The three of us got lots of work done, sort of, while everyone else was in rehearsal. Most importantly, I got Leopard installed on my computer! Yea! Now I’m as cool as the other kids. Ryan adds a new dynamic to everything. It’s like the crew, even just the 5 of us, are white frosting. Then someone new comes in for a few days, Ryan, Craig, Julia, whoever, and they are ... read more