Orientation

So I’m off! My trip to Boston was interesting to say the least. The snowstorm on Wednesday complicated things, but we made it. We ended up taking the train from Portland so we (as in Bud) didn’t have to drive through the snow. I met my group at a hostel in Boston. There were only 13 out of 35 of us that made it there on time. People have been trickling in slowly and all but 2 have made it. Everyone’s just crossing their fingers that they’ll be here before Saturday morning when we fly to Switzerland. I’ll be traveling with a really great group of people. The majority of them are science majors, many considering med school. There are a few Soc/Anthro majors, but not as many as I expected. There are only 5 boys which makes for an interesting group dynamic. I have 2 traveling professors and 1 staff member named Mattie that is just a few years older than me. She’ll be with us the whole time and is kind of like an RA on the trip. We’ve haven’t done too too much so far. We’ve done a lot of icebreaker games and today the coordinators went over the policies of the program. Tonight we went to the president of IHP’s house for dinner. There were a few alumni there so we got to hear some advice from them. Tomorrow we have a long day that starts at 9, but we have from 5 on to do whatever we want to in Boston. My e-mail address is ashley.whittemore@yahoo.com if you want to e-mail me while I’m away. I’d love to hear from everyone.

Talk to you soon <3