Sunday, the One Day Off

So I have now been here for six days! For the last five days i have been in the same team, but today we switched teams. This way we can be with every team leader before we get our permanet teams November 5th. Untill to day the one really intresting trip we went on as a team was to Red Rocks Amphitheater. Red Rocks was built in the 1930's by the CCC and was redone in 2004. The amphitheater is a concert venue, that host big and small name artests. I would love to see a concert in the spring if I am here. the group photo is my first team at the top of Red Rocks.

Today I went hiking with the Water Unit, which I am in. We went hiking in the Rocky Mountain State Park, a beautiful place. The views in the park take you breath away. The photos I took just don’t do it justice. We stopped at one point I found a maker that said we were about 8,000 ft in elevation. In comparison, Denver is about 5,200 ft and is called the mile high city. I posted photos from the hike on the right side of this page so you all can see the view. While we were driving into the park we drove past a herd of elk, which were the only major animals we saw. The only bad part about the trip was the 2 hour drive there in the 15 passenger van that was completely full.

Saturday I went with my neighbors and some girls down the hall to downtown Denver. We walked around and saw the movie Where the Wild Things Are. The movie wasn’t bad, but I thought it would be different. Parts of the movie were too drawn out and long. We took the bus home from downtown because the bus from the light rail to campus stops after 7:30pm. The bus ride was interesting; you defiantly see all walks of life when you ride public transportation. I will say this for Denver; it has a fantastic public transportation system. The city is also pretty clean for the size of the city.

Yesterday was our day off. I went with a group of people downtown and walked around. Our oginal goal was to go to bolder but it got too late because of the following reason. It took us forever to get downtown because we got lost trying to get to the light rail station. We took the long way there, which wasn’t so fun. That experience taught us what not to do when trying to use the public transportation. We walked around downtown, went in to a few shops but didn’t buy anything. We don’t make enough money for us to afford anything, less than 2 dollars a day isn’t much. We saw the capital and took pictures at the mile high marker. We played a few games of cards in the park across from the capital before taking the light rail and bus home.

As far as training goes we have filled out all kinds of forms and had a three hour meeting about campus rules and what we can’t wear with our uniforms. Everything that we wear with the uniform has to be black, white, or gray. This includes socks that can be seen, gloves, scarves, and head bands. It wouldn’t be so bad if they had told us before we arrived that way we could have brought the right color stuff with us. The gloves and scarf I brought I can’t wear with the uniform because they are purple and blue. I bought some black head bands the other day now I just have to get some cheep gloves. There is a photo of me in the uniform in the photos of Rocky Mountian. Tomorrow my team has drivers training. We are learning how to drive the 15 passenger van. It should be interesting!