updates

Well it's been a while since my last post-- Since May I have finished my internship with the CT General Assembly, been taking online courses through Quinnipiac, traveled to Boise Idaho, then from there drove to Wyoming and Montana to see Yellowstone National Park, then drove back to Boise to spend time with my cousins that live there. Then a week after returning home my cousin from Boise came to spend a week here in CT. Now that she has returned to Idaho I am finishing up my last online course, and am into my second week as an inter for US Senator Christopher Dodd's district office in Hartford.

I am very excited about this internship and love it so far!! Right now I answer the phones and take messages for people in the office and help with constituent casework. My internship is only about 6 weeks long but I am sure that I will learn a great deal just from being there that short time. On my first day, July 1st, the Senator was in the office but I just saw him walk by, and didn't have a chance to introduce myself to him.

Outside of interning and homework (which will be over next week!!! Can't wait!!) I spend as much time as possible with my family at the lake!! Janelle Schmittberger my cousin just graduated from Hale-Ray high school in Moodus, CT and that was a very exciting and stressful time for our family. No family is perfect but what is great about mine is that no matter how much stress we all have or who makes mistakes we are all there for each other and we stick together to work it out.

Well I am off to do some homework before I head out to the lake to see my little cousins, Alyssa (10) Evan (6) and Lily (4) and their beautiful mom Aunt Nicole, then to do a little shopping and have dinner with mom, Teri.