Finally… people!

The biggest update, I suppose, is that I’ve met some of the other City Year people and they’re amazing. It all started Sunday afternoon when we went to be in these promo videos for a day of service that San Antonio is putting on at the end of Sept. 10 cats from City Year showed up there. We laughed and had fun, ate some cookie cake, and broke the ice. (Don’t worry; I’ll post the promo videos here when I get them) Then we went to dinner together and later that night we went over to Jill, Lauren, Lizbeth and Sasha’s apartment (which is gi-normous, by the way) to watch Love Actually. Yesterday we had registration, so we met 22 of the other corps members there. We went back over to the girls’ apartment last night to hang out and chat. I learned to play You-kur (I don’t know how to spell it, that phonetically) it’s like Spades, but just with 9s-aces. Today we all went to the Witte Museum because it’s free on Tuesdays. We saw a triceratops skeleton, beautiful butterflies, a mummy, lots of stuffed animals, some live animals, and a ridiculously awesome kids’ museum with all kinds of hands on stuff (Tramelle was right, it’s awesome). Then we ate dinner across the street at Cachito de Mexico; a little Mexican restaurant that boasts “Home of the Homemade Corn and Flour Tortillas” and “Free Sopapillas for Everyone.” So we had to go in. (Sopapillas are fried, fluffy, sweet tortillas. These had cinnamon sugar and molasses on top. They usually have honey and powdered sugar.) It was muy delicioso and the woman who served us was the owner and she was amazing. So sweet. It took us a while to navigate home on the bus, just like it took us a while to get to the Witte. But all in all a fun night and we got to show Lauren a portion of the River Walk for the first time. Lauren and Jill are both college grads like me. Sasha and Lizbeth just finished high school as did one of my roommates, Robert. My other roommate, Matt, is 20 and has been going to LSU for the past 2 years. I cannot wait until tomorrow because my mom and LEXIE will be here!! And Layton may be coming this weekend! I’m keeping my fingers crossed about that. Not sure what’s on the plate for today… going to pick up a couch most likely.