The Rollercoaster Ride of a Lifetime....and I was the driver!!

Well, Thursday was my first full day out on the road!! It finally came and I LOVED it!! I woke up bright and early to get to the Graduate and Professional Fair at the University of Nevada, Reno! Of course, as many would suspect, I was the first person there two hours before the event started! :-) It helped though because I was able to ask the staff if I could move to a better location and end up just by the door where the students came into the building! This meant I had a lot of students automatically coming by my table as they walked in! It was a lot of fun to be back on a college campus and talking to students about their dreams and future. In addition, during the morning I was able to meet some other colleagues who are recruiting for their schools! it should be fun to see who I run into along my travel route!

After the fair ended at 2pm I had five hours to kill before I was to meet with the pre-law fraternity at their weekly meeting on campus. So I went to the gym! But I had not packed a gym bag...so I wheeled my suitcase into the gym! and I hadn't packed a towel since ....so I used clothes to dry off! Hilarious and I am sure people thought I was strange!!

The meeting with the students of the pre-law fraternity was a great success! My colleague from Gonzaga School of Law and I just told our "story" of how we got to law school and some of our experiences and then opened it up for questions. This allowed the students to ask all the things they have been wondering about! The question and answer time lasted over and hour. Many of the students were very interested in Pacific McGeorge since this is the closest law school to Reno! Hearing the students quetions brought me back to the time I was considering law school. I remember sitting at my parents back table crying because I was so overwhelmed by the decision. It is a life changing decision that will demand a lot from a person and put you into a lot of debt...thus, I of course, suggested that the students follow their dreams but don't be afraid to take "time off" after college to make a well thought out decision about whether or not they will go to law school!

Okay, okay, okay! you all want to know about this rollercoaster! Well, it was my drive home on I-80 from Reno to Sacramento. You see, I drove through South Lake Tahoe on my way up to Reno via Highway 50, so I had never experienced I-80...and let me say, Westbound I-80 at 10pm is an experience!! At one point there were cement pylons on both sides of the one lane freeway with only centimeters to spare! I had the whitest knuckles you have ever seen...it was pitch black and huge bright lights were coming at me from the cars driving in the opposite direction! Yikes! However, I at least was smart enough to get behind a semi-truck as the freeway was going into one lane...this allowed me to drive VERY slow without those behind me getting mad (cause I was behind a big truck I couldn't go any faster than he was going!!lol) The drive ultimately was one big adventure with lanes merging and changing, construction everywhere and even a freeway closure taking me on back roads somewhere in the middle of the night! I obviouly arrived safely though and have lived to tell of the rollercoaster ride home!

Next, I fly to Southern California for two weeks! Much to take care of before then!