Today was a stream a great news for our apartment. My roommate Ana, from Colorado, got an e-mail congratulating her on an invitation to go to an Ernst and Young training event. I'm not an accounting major, but I obviously realize how big of a deal that is. She'll be perfectly set up to get an internship in the near future. Even at UT, those kind of things are really hard to get, so she was obviously really excited about that! I was chosen to be a portfolio manager for a massive UT fund next year! It's a team of about eight student, most who interviewed for the position, who will participate in an "investment challenge." It's a big competition between other big southern schools (Auburn, Alabama, Vanderbilt, etc), and I plan on dominating. Also, I'm getting really excited for Austin to come to UT especially since I've been informed that he might be a Lady Vol practice player! I'm pretty sure the intramural teams are going to have a hey day with his arrival as well. The Naves are just going to town.
Anyway, to continue on my travels and get my blog up to date, after Rome, Asher hung out in Grenoble for a couple of days. I had one French exam and was attempting to study for the others, but we mostly ate in parks, hiked, cooked good meals, and watched a lot of The Big Bang Theory. We hiked the Bastille one day which was really enjoyable. It was the third time I've hiked it this semester. It's really the perfect hike because it only takes about an hour and a half round trip, has a marvelous view of Grenoble, and has a very clearly defined path. The hike up can be rough, and I have to take breaks. I think Asher really enjoyed it as well and even commented that Grenoble was a "neat place." Yeah... it's a small place with too much pollution, but it's my home for a semester and I love it.
Traveling can be really stressful and tiresome, emotional and physically. So, when Asher and I were in Grenoble, it was hard to try to do too much because traveling every weekend can be terrible at times. Just like now, I'm getting ready to leave to go to London for three days then on to Manchester with ALL OF MY STUFF. Three different trains with the shortest layover being 50 minutes, yeah, I'm slightly worried. During the time that we were watching too much TV on my computer and studying, we thought it would be a brilliant, fun idea to go to Disneyland Paris! We started planning right away, but I'll save the details for the next post.
Ok, I'll post more soon.
AC! Where is your roommate doing the E&Y event?? I got accepted the one in Seattle! (Everyone at UT usually goes to Atlanta or Nashville... I was begging for somewhere else).
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