News on the moving front.
So, we found out today about possible rotations for Brian's job. This would start in September of 2008. MI will not be on the list for us. Our likely places will be in Fort. Worth Texas, Augusta Georgia, or a town near Boston Massachusetts. That we won't know until much later, like May or June. I know my family will be disappointed but I'm excited. I don't think we will like anything as much as we like Charlotte, but it is still a new adventure. I'm open for any one of those new places. I'm torn between the idea of Boston and the idea of having a warm winter... right about now that seems like a great idea!!! :P Life continues to change for the Eastmans. I'm learning to roll with it and be open to all the new possibilities these adventures will bring. Don't worry, I'm still a little confused about what I really think. I suppose I need more time to let it sink in.
5 weeks till graduation and I am very excited. I will have to finish internship hours, but NO more classwork. I have yet to secure an internship in Charlotte, but hopefully that will be taken care of soon. After next week I can really start looking.
I got back last night from visiting Brian for Easter weekend. It was a perfect weekend. We shopped, bought curtains :), walked around the sunny uptown Charlotte, met new friends, cooked and just enjoyed the time we got to spend with each other. We also went to church on Easter. Boy was that an experience!!! It was a big Catholic Church. Brian said he felt like we were on TV. Everyone was singing and dancing and I almost couldn't follow along! I have been going to mass my whole life and I didn't always know what was going on. They sung the Our Father, and not just prayed in a sing-song way, the Our Father had a chorus to it in this church! They also rounded out the mass with "Oh Happy Day" Everyone was dancing and clapping. I had to keep checking that I was in a Catholic Church. Not that there is anything wrong with these things, it was just so out of the ordinary for a Catholic Church. Brian told one of the women he works with about it and she said "Down here even them Catholics be signin and dancin!"
We have also found that we can't always understand what people are saying. While people talk slower the accent is so thick to me sometimes that I find myself saying "what was that?" more than once. Maybe I'll get better at that. I do think the accent is cute. Brian has been told that he talks too fast! It is funny the differences you can see in different states, especially between the north and the south. I am enjoying finding the positive things about life in the south.
5 weeks till graduation and I am very excited. I will have to finish internship hours, but NO more classwork. I have yet to secure an internship in Charlotte, but hopefully that will be taken care of soon. After next week I can really start looking.
I got back last night from visiting Brian for Easter weekend. It was a perfect weekend. We shopped, bought curtains :), walked around the sunny uptown Charlotte, met new friends, cooked and just enjoyed the time we got to spend with each other. We also went to church on Easter. Boy was that an experience!!! It was a big Catholic Church. Brian said he felt like we were on TV. Everyone was singing and dancing and I almost couldn't follow along! I have been going to mass my whole life and I didn't always know what was going on. They sung the Our Father, and not just prayed in a sing-song way, the Our Father had a chorus to it in this church! They also rounded out the mass with "Oh Happy Day" Everyone was dancing and clapping. I had to keep checking that I was in a Catholic Church. Not that there is anything wrong with these things, it was just so out of the ordinary for a Catholic Church. Brian told one of the women he works with about it and she said "Down here even them Catholics be signin and dancin!"
We have also found that we can't always understand what people are saying. While people talk slower the accent is so thick to me sometimes that I find myself saying "what was that?" more than once. Maybe I'll get better at that. I do think the accent is cute. Brian has been told that he talks too fast! It is funny the differences you can see in different states, especially between the north and the south. I am enjoying finding the positive things about life in the south.